Influx of Hacked Accounts

[ajareselde]

This is silly and a waste of time. I don't think Theymos intends to do the right thing and change all passwords to have sufficient entropy until they are reset by email, so I am going to walk away from my account and close my email previously associated with the account. The trolling and the hack was merely the straw that broke the camels back... this forum has been going downhill for a while.
Goodbye bitcointalk.

If you really care about the forum, you shouldnt just leave, that wont help make it a better place.
I find it interesting how you take such things so personally; did you experience some personal loss due to recent events  ?

Well, I thought theymos should disallow users to change email for a certain period of time.
When will this forum enable Google 2FA? I suppose this will help relieve some worries even certain users may have used relatively weak passwords.

I would like to see 2FA also, ASAP. There's just too much at stake to have such minimum security. This forum deals with a lot of trades and values, and as such should have better security imho.

cheers

[redsn0w]

I can see how many people are just going to ignore this ever even happened and are not planning to change their password. Sure, it may be hard to obtain the actual password, but it is not impossible either. I am hoping at least the most prominent users will use reason.

Exactly, a lot of users (people) don't understand how to protect after an hack their account... but they will surely cry sooner or later and say "why my account was hacked,why I can't access on my account, bla bla?". This is the funny thing, in my honest opinion theymos should send also a general PM here in the forum and say "you should change the password, because the forum was hacked... ". I know he sent an email, but a lot of users are using a random e-mail.

[alch1mista]

I can see how many people are just going to ignore this ever even happened and are not planning to change their password. Sure, it may be hard to obtain the actual password, but it is not impossible either. I am hoping at least the most prominent users will use reason.

Exactly, a lot of users (people) don't understand how to protect after an hack their account... but they will surely cry sooner or later and say "why my account was hacked,why I can't access on my account, bla bla?". This is the funny thing, in my honest opinion theymos should send also a general PM here in the forum and say "you should change the password, because the forum was hacked... ". I know he sent an email, but a lot of users are using a random e-mail.

Yes it should definitely be in the news as a red alert.
I know already of two hero accounts being hacked, this is serious business.

[dothebeats]

I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of hacked accounts in the near future (abandoned but high ranked accounts for example). Stay alert guys!

Yeah I've seen some old accounts just started posting again today after years of not being used .

Which ones? Maybe a list should be compiled, though what Quickseller said in another thread will also be relevant that many older inactive members will be likely to return to change their passwords by the email they received from theymos.

Yes, it is probable that old users will return to change their password just for precaution, but posting nonsense from inactive accounts for years? That should ring a bell.

[redsn0w]

I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of hacked accounts in the near future (abandoned but high ranked accounts for example). Stay alert guys!

Yeah I've seen some old accounts just started posting again today after years of not being used .

Which ones? Maybe a list should be compiled, though what Quickseller said in another thread will also be relevant that many older inactive members will be likely to return to change their passwords by the email they received from theymos.

Yes, it is probable that old users will return to change their password just for precaution, but posting nonsense from inactive accounts for years? That should ring a bell.

This, like the Mt.gox support's account... he is trolling and post useless posts around the forum  . This should alert everyone that those account(s) were hacked and it is (or better they are) under the control of the 'hacker' who has attacked the forum .