It's nice to see the forum is back up.

[louise123]

Wow, it has almost been 3 days.
What happened?
Why were the servers down for this long?

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[fryarminer]

Did it HAVE to go down for Bitcoin Pizza Day?!
Worst time ever for bitcointalk withdrawals!!!

[Hamuki]

Someone used social engineering to gain access to the servers.
So a lot was compromised and that is why you have also received an email saying that you should change passwd and secret question.

[okae]

Wow, it has almost been 3 days.
What happened?
Why were the servers down for this long?

if you want to have some fresh news next time, feel free to check:

https://twitter.com/bitcointalk

btw yes, i agree with you, 3 days without out lovely forum is to much, but eyh, at least we have it back
also gj with take it back!

[Bitware]

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

[Aggressor66]

Thank god it's up and running again  
BTW wtf is "social engineering" attack  

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

All done

[onewiseguy]

Thank god it's up and running again  
BTW wtf is "social engineering" attack  

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

All done

Google my friend.

[neoneros]

Social engineering is when you smoothtalk yourself into a serverroom or into the acounts. It is when you personaly and physacaly have contact with the item you hack. Opposed to the other kinds of hacking which is by bruteforcing it.

Glad it is up now, changed my password and the likes, glad I had a seperate password for the forum, so no changing  needed in other places.

Password: **********  

[Falconer]

wow it's like spring time has come after the long winter
i couldn't do anything in front of my computer in last 3 days  

[dbshck]

I'm glad finally the forum back online.

Don't forget to change your password and account secret question.

If you used the same password on bitcointalk.org as on other sites, then
you should also immediately change your password on those other sites.
Also, if you had a secret question set, then you should assume that the
attacker now knows the answer to your secret question.

[unamis76]

Looks like we are up, finally Everyone, update your passwords!

[achow101]

I really happy to see this forum is online I don't know where to live while I'm online for 3 days 

[(oYo)]

Welcome back everyone!

[hilariousetc]

Thanks theymos for the hardwork. I changed my password but not my email ID as I'm not sure if I should do it as the pwd used on this forum wasn't used anywhere else fortunately. I've not received any phishing email except this one yesterday:

Whether you change your email or not is up to you and it should be ok but remember it has been exposed now so take that into consideration.

[erikalui]

Thanks theymos for the hardwork. I changed my password but not my email ID as I'm not sure if I should do it as the pwd used on this forum wasn't used anywhere else fortunately. I've not received any phishing email except this one yesterday:

Whether you change your email or not is up to you and it should be ok but remember it has been exposed now so take that into consideration.

Yeah I know that the address is now revealed to the hacker but not the password. Anyways my PMs too don't have any sensitive information except my email address. Only issue is the IP addresses which have been leaked now. I hope it doesn't harm me or any other member.

I deleted my earlier message as it wasn't relevant to this thread.

[dothebeats]

Well, for security purposes, the first thing I did when I logged in to this forum is change my password. Better safe than sorry. It's nice to see that the forum is up and running again, and it's quite saddening that the downtime extended through our lovely Bitcoin for Pizza day. But oh well, I guess that's how the system works after all. Good to see everything is back to normal (well, kinda).

[mishax1]

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

Paranoid much ? 

[Bitware]

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

Paranoid much ?  

Those are called reasonable security practices considering the level of the security breach.

It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you. There are no delusions nor unreasonable nor irrational mistrust and suspicion. They actually broke into the database and got access to our information. To pretend it did not happen and not alter your access information appropriately is pure folly.

Maybe the forum staff should send law enforcement your details, since you appear to be attempting to discourage people from reacting in a rational fashion to secure their accounts. It appears you want time to crack open those password hashes...

[dogie]

I hope you all have changed your passwords and changed your passwords for any emails, services or websites related to your email address or bitcointalk screen name.

Paranoid much ? 

For users using password generators its really not much hassle, would take <5 minutes to change all important accounts and maybe <2 hours for all accounts.

[romano1]

Please change your passwords if you use the same password at other places too, as you know theymos said.