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I think coinbase user database has been hacked, I lost access to my account and a quick google search came up this: http://pastebin.com/u584bT1X

Anyone else having trouble accessing coinbase account?  :(

if someone could hack coinbase and had peoples login details.. they would not need to ask for bounties

also its usually the OP posting a link to a scam that is usually the culprit that will financially gain from it

I'm not a scammer? I lost access to my coinbase account and this is what I found, is anyone else locked out of coinbase? I'd say the guy cleaned out all those coinbase accounts and is trying to sell the database as "fresh"  >:(

we shall see

IIRC you had posted a past bin about Satashi posting a PGP signed message to have people send him 100 BTC for some reason. The PGP "message" was not even signed, but was rather encrypted to someone's PGP key.

Clearly another scam.

EDIT: here it is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=822628.msg9192431#msg9192431

At least I didn't lose a large amount, only £20 worth, isn't coinbase insured??


I'm always watching out on pastebin for news of hacks, this is usually where leaks first appear, not only an hour ago a tonne of instagram account details where leaked on the site.

Well the first "hack" that you posted about was beyond a reasonable doubt a scam, there is no question about it. You would need to be lacking any reasonable knowledge about how GPG works in order to believe the first "hack"

This one is not 100% sure to be a scam however it certainly looks, feels and smells like a scam. I would also think that if coinbase was in fact hacked then you would not lose access to your account unless they turn off the site completely so they can try to recover from the hack which they have not

this is what we get because selling accounts is allowed

If you look at the OP's trust you will see that he previously defaulted on a loan from BTCjam. I think that the OP is generally not trustworthy and has no issues with scamming.

I wouldn't say that we see this because of sold accounts as if someone buys as account they will not want to risk the money they used to buy the account on a scam like this

Yeah you are right.. But is there a clear update about this? I am bit hesitant to transact in coinbase right now.

Coinbase can be hacked for sure. The question is why would someone sell the database instead of taking all the Bitcoin? I am sure it's more than 10 BTC there :) ; Only if the passwords are encrypted...