Is your password the same here as it is in PD? Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people get their PD and other bitcoin related accounts hacked due to the forum hack. Your personal details such as email address and password hashes will likely already be on the black market and leaked publicly eventually so make sure you change everything especially if all your accounts can be linked via email or reuse passwords etc.

All the info is in the image metadata. You can turn it off in your camera or phone settings. And don't some image hosts like imugr strip images of all this stuff when you upload them? Maybe try that for extra security. And who was this member? Maybe it's related to the hack?

Basically the only way they know is because you haven't got one. If you have an antenna and a tv then you'll need one and they'll send you a letter stating that you haven't purchased one yet and you need to. If you don't then they'll send someone round to check you're not watching or have a TV. If you don't let them in there's nothing much they can do without a warrant but they usually keep pestering you. There are ways you can get around paying it though. You don't need one if you haven't got an Ariel and you can just stream shows instead. You'll need one if you live stream from bbc iplayer but not if you stream them after their live broadcast. It's a bit of a racket really and should be scrapped. The BBC should get their funding elsewhere as its only the BBC you're paying for.

How so? It obviously took planning but so does any half-decent heist but that doesn't necessarily it was 'done to order'.


Was a bank holiday weekend so they had days. They even left and came back again. Pretty ballsy.

Well it looks like people have already been badly effected by their info being leaked and I'm sure it will become publicly available at some point. It looks like several accounts have already been hacked and over the next few days I'm sure we'll see people complaining about having other accounts hacked or bitcoin balances cleaned out and so on.

It wasn't the forum's fault but the hosting. The new forum is being made now but that wouldn't have stopped this either and its being tested to make sure there are no holes or ways to exploit it. And people shouldn't keep their bank details or back ups of their wallets in their emails especially if they can't keep it secure.

Simple solution: don't open them. I wouldn't click on any email I didn't like the look of especially ones that mention btc.

Why would you need to use one of these and not just use tor? What are the additional benefits?

You'd be surprised at how many people will reuse emails and passwords. I'm sure many do the same with their blockchain.info accounts too. Regardless of that, the infodump of all this forum's users emails would be very valuable to advertisers or scammers/spammers but maybe whoever hacked it did it just because he could. Some people just like finding security holes though I'm sure the person will try get some money out of the info he has.

Why would you need the password or anything else to accounts like sadasdsdfgdfgdfgdfa@gmail.com when you could just create the gmail account yourself and reset the pass? Once you had the list of obviously fake emails you could create any that used real providers.

I don't think he stated or insinuated that, just that people should consider using them.


Yes, they were sent out by theymos en masse, though that doesn't mean you might not have recieved a phishing mail. I'm sure the hacker will try something with our emails.

Didn't you only get made a mod on PD only a short while ago?

No, you should change it because it could be broken eventually especially if it was a weak password. I wouldn't take any chances.

And they'd be charging a lot more than 0.3 for it. A dump of the email addresses would be very valuable to both hackers and advertisers. They'll probably get leaked eventually in some form so I'd make sure your email addresses are secure and if they're a fake one make sure it cannot easily be created.

Giving users extra time seems logical and fair. I've just requested the same over on my campaign. Don't forget to change your passwords and make sure your email addresses are as secure as can be because the hacker could target them for easy access.

Will we be able to get an extension for the days the forum was down if needed? An extra week would be good seeing as how we also started 5 days into the new month. Thanks.

That's why I personally don't use exchanges. If I wanted to cash out I'd probably just sell locally or through a bank transfer or something on here. Always best to cut out the middle man and that's why I think we're in desperate need for decentralized exchanges.

Chess is a game of skill where ideally you need to plan moves in advance whereas poker is a game of chance down to the luck of the draw. The computer can't know what cards your opponents have either. I can't see how a computer would be any better than a human at it really.

Since when do you have to pay for TV? Eurovision isn't exactly enthralling entertainment but its a bit of camp fun. I had no idea it was on to be honest but I probably wouldn't have watched it as I had other things to do.

Yeah, there's always going to be some lose ends and they left quite a bit of dna and fingerprint evidence behind apparently. Them being caught certainly ruins the mystery and intrigue of it all but at least we might get to know the full picture of how they pulled it off. Someone will roll over and grass and spill the beans on how it went down for a shorter sentence or something.