Burstcoin hacked

[zsmith]

Burst was hacked yesterday.

Either someone was able to mass crack passwords or has been farming passwords from online wallets.   About 60 different accounts were emptied out totaling $918.

Hacked funds went to GTMC-JFT9-YSBE-HRU2C and then were laundered through bittrex.

Any ideas on the culprit?   Is this a flaw in the coin or just someone trusting an online wallet?  I'm guessing it's an online wallet to blame.

[NeuroticFish]

About 60 different accounts were emptied out totaling $918.

60 addresses, 918$, these are not so big amounts. Are you sure it was a hack?
However, I think that you may have better chances for getting any answers in the new BURST thread.

[Douglasy]

how did you know that there is a hacked wallet? if it really happened and happened to online wallet, I think that's more like a personal fault.

[aioc]

Burst was hacked yesterday.

Either someone was able to mass crack passwords or has been farming passwords from online wallets.   About 60 different accounts were emptied out totaling $918.

Hacked funds went to GTMC-JFT9-YSBE-HRU2C and then were laundered through bittrex.

Any ideas on the culprit?   Is this a flaw in the coin or just someone trusting an online wallet?  I'm guessing it's an online wallet to blame.

60 different account is a huge number to me even if the amount did not reach thousands of dollars worth of coin, I understand they have a community I'm sure their community is fully aware of what's happening and leaders will give a warning guidelines about using an online wallet.

[kiemnhieutien]

If it was hacked, 60 accounts is just the start number and it will raise. But is this new is official?
Wait for the official announcement from them first, don't spread fud.

[Yaunfitda]

Links?

I haven't heard anything from them though, probably just one guy's account being reported to be hacked (I might be wrong). That's why it's really important to post some proof or at least the source of your info.

Well hackers are always one step of the game, so if you don't know how to protect and secure your account or wallet then the blame is to those guys.

[zsmith]

Links?

I haven't heard anything from them though, probably just one guy's account being reported to be hacked (I might be wrong). That's why it's really important to post some proof or at least the source of your info.

Well hackers are always one step of the game, so if you don't know how to protect and secure your account or wallet then the blame is to those guys.

This is the account that received the stolen funds from my account.

https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/account/17655051186295236202

The transaction with my account was https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/transaction/4771786102876872045, yet if you look, many other transactions were made within minutes, all draining the account of down to the hundreds.  Notice all transactions are ending in 00, as the hacker left the tens and ones in the accounts and just round numbers.  So I assume they are all other people who got funds stolen as well as the pattern is the same as mine.

[Osarman]

About 60 different accounts were emptied out totaling $918.

60 addresses, 918$, these are not so big amounts. Are you sure it was a hack?
However, I think that you may have better chances for getting any answers in the new BURST thread.

Same question I was about asking too, I don't think that it was an hack attempt because I know hackers very much and one thing I know about them is that they won't spend their time on a platform trying to hack $900 from it because it's just a total waste of time and hacking resources, it takes a lot of time and resources to hack, this is why when hackers are ready to take money from their victim, they don't go for the small shot but the big shot in order to make it count.

[Herbert2020]

Burst was hacked yesterday.
...from online wallets. ... 60 different accounts were emptied out ..

these two lines are contradictory.

you can't say a "coin" was hacked (in this case Burst coin) when you really are talking about some account on some web wallet was hacked.
it is like saying "bitcoin was hacked when Mt Gox ran away"! obviously it was Mt Gox that scammed people or other cases like Bitfinex which got hacked because of their security flaws and it had nothing to do with bitcoin.
similarly if it was indeed some online account on some third party website then the issue is with that and it is the most common thing that has always been happening in cryptosphere!

[FanEagle]

I guess this should be the fault of an online wallet and I wonder why many people still keep their coins in an online wallets despite all the advice against it, it must have been done an account with very loosed passwords and accounts that did not activate their 2FA factors.

That is the reason why they probably didn’t get more than the amount they stole, it must have been from all these account with small savings that feels there is no need to go extra mile in making their account more secured, because I am sure for now, most account with large funds would have seriously taken precautions and don’t store their funds in online wallet.

[levyashin]

When i see a hack story on crypto, it feels like a "hack" story. We got "hacked" and by the way we have new building now.

But in this manner, 60 addresses, 918$ doesn't seem like a big deal.