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If somesone would have hacked Tradhill, then multiple, if not all users would have lost their money, but instead, only your account is affected.
If you think a little bit about it, it is clear that somebody had your password.
Maybe it was to easy to guess or to find out with brute force trial and error. Maybe you used the same password in another service or website which got hacked. Maybe you had the password stored in your browser and someone had physical accesss to your computer?
Maybe with this information you may spot your very own security hole and fix it, so that this doesn't happen to you again.
Btw. With the bitcoin block explorer you can see where transactions are going, but this is rather complicated and chances that you find the thief that way are rather small.
Yeah, I know, It's not that TH was hacked, but what bothers me is that I'm not a big BTC user with lots of BTCs mined or something like that. I started as another guy in the bitcoin thing and didn't get so much. It pisses me off being bullied just because someone can do it. But still, it would be very interesting, how your account got hacked.
Which of the points I gave you could you answer with true?
Well, let's see: Somebody could have stolen my password? hard to accomplish. I work inside a corporate intranet and behind a firewall most of the time. No one in my company as far as I know are into BTC trading. At home, I scan my computers once or twice a week for spyware and virus and don't use IE. In fact, the computer that holds my wallet is not the one used for trading is another one and the mining rig is another one. BTW I pulled the plug for the rig like 2 months ago. I put online the bitcoin program only to update my BTC balance. It's true that my browser had my password but then again, I'm just a tiny part of the TH market. I'm sure that several people has their browsers set to save passwords and probably 10 times more BTCs than I. My password has more than 10 characters. Brute force attack is possible but the effort would be too much for just 17 BTCs... Anyway, s*it happened. Now I'm sure to log off all my accounts before closing the browser and will only enter smaller amounts to test the security. Also, the TH guys have taken my suggestion about use a link to confirm withdrawals or transfers between accounts sent to the e-mail with a time deadline to accept the transaction. I hope they add this feature soon. |
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If somesone would have hacked Tradhill, then multiple, if not all users would have lost their money, but instead, only your account is affected.
If you think a little bit about it, it is clear that somebody had your password.
Maybe it was to easy to guess or to find out with brute force trial and error. Maybe you used the same password in another service or website which got hacked. Maybe you had the password stored in your browser and someone had physical accesss to your computer?
Maybe with this information you may spot your very own security hole and fix it, so that this doesn't happen to you again.
Btw. With the bitcoin block explorer you can see where transactions are going, but this is rather complicated and chances that you find the thief that way are rather small.
Yeah, I know, It's not that TH was hacked, but what bothers me is that I'm not a big BTC user with lots of BTCs mined or something like that. I started as another guy in the bitcoin thing and didn't get so much. It pisses me off being bullied just because someone can do it. |
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I had no complains with TH until happened what happened... Now I'm afraid of losing more BTCs, no matter where I sell/buy them.
What happened? Look 6 or 7 posts above this one... |
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Mtgox trades 80-95% per day, depending of high or low volume day. On high volume days mtgox reaches up to 95%
Liquidity is a good thing, but I think it's a little strange that a decentralized currency relies so much in one company. I like to support the alternatives. I had no complains with TH until happened what happened... Now I'm afraid of losing more BTCs, no matter where I sell/buy them. |
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Yeah life's a b*tch Point is, to achieve 5 hours of logged activity I've been around a couple of weeks! |
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Now that BTCs are below 3 bucks, someone hacked my TH account and stole 17 BTCs by withdrawing them to his address.. WHY? It would have made sense at $15/BTC or more...
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What I don't understand is that you have to actually post or click on links... the reading time in the threads is not considered as time logged in!!!
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Hi,
I started mining on June 2011 until I stopped mining on 15 BTCs. I've worked with tradehill since July 2011 and went by the usual method to increase my BTCs: buy cheap sell expensive and with that, last week I still had around 15 BTCs but also a profit of near 12 bucks, even with the drop of BTC value.
Two days ago I entered Tradehill to check after 2 days since my last login, my funds were down to zero! To make things worse (I thought it was just a glitch) the transaction log showed that my funds were used one day before to buy all the BTCs possible and then, the total amount of BTCs were withdrawed to this address: 194XZ7Jqm1BcLcevKyRSRaQrVP4aA4htEU
In other words, someone hacked my account and robbed all my money and BTCs. Of course, selling the bitcoins and transfer the money would be traceable but the other way is not. Now I have almost nothing and no one to blame.
Tradehill team has been in contact with me since I reported this but they cannot help me. I'm not writing this to discourage you using their service but you should be aware that this can happen to anyone and of course, if somebody knows that the owner of that bitcoin address has an account in tradehill also, I appreciate to report it to TH team.
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I donīt get it. You want to convince other people not using BTC that the idea is good so the ones that already believe in them raise the price???
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If I could get an invitation as well, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Same here please. And btw, why is btc price going down in almost every exchange site? |
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Im selling Washer and Dryers in the orlando florida (USA) area, and I want to start acccepting bitcoins. How can I promote myself in the Bitcoin community?
Naive question: You can always accept btc for your products, but what about the courier expenses? they'd cost you bucks from your wallet... |
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please do so! and get a post  don't be so negative, the 5-post-4-hour-rule is there for a reason: to get rid of the trolls. NOT to piss newcomers off. relax take it easy and smile.  Mod note:
If you see anyone spamming this thread, please report it. Spam will result in an immediate ban.OK. Let's see. I'm AlfurX (Duh!) and live in Peru. Probably the one and only guy mining btc in my country. Kinda sad... anyway, I'm not expecting to make a fortune in this (yet) but probably could set an exchange site someday... I'll be posting more soon! |
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Kind of sad you actually need this, but I guess if it's necessary...
Agree. I'm not a troll but have to endure the limitations. |
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