Instawallet/Bitcoin-Central Security Breach

[splat44]

Here the latest:

In next few days account refund process will begin as explained below:

- Will accept refund in first 90 days, be sure you kave your wallet url and key
- Account having less than 50BTC will be refunded
- Claims for wallets that hold a balance greater than 50 BTC will be processed on a case by case and best efforts basis.

Above came from: https://www.instawallet.org/

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[d5000]

I did read the whole thread.  I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

Yes, in the last hours sometimes http://bitcoin-central.net showed the "Instawallet" message. Now they have changed it to the correct message (for the services Paytunia  and Bitcoin-Central).

[greyhawk]

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

[steelboy]

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Are you sure you know where their offices are?

No.

Bad neighborhood. Better take some resilient people along.

Lol. C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

[DobZombie]

I did read the whole thread.  I've been following it post by post for the last few days.

I'm just pissed off that the bitcoins I put in bitcoin-central are going to take 90+ days to get back to me because the owners other business was badly designed.

see my issue now?

Your account balances (EUR, USD, GBP and BTC) were not affected by the service interruption.

This is the latest update in bitcoin-central

It did say the same thing on bitcoin-central as it did on Instawallet web site.  At the time of posting what I said was correct. This has now been changed.

Yes, in the last hours sometimes http://bitcoin-central.net showed the "Instawallet" message. Now they have changed it to the correct message (for the services Paytunia  and Bitcoin-Central).

I'm a little less worried now

[greyhawk]

C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

Alors tu fais. Mais savez tu aussi parler Darija?

[tvbcof]

C'est pas problem. Je parle francais.

Alors tu fais. Mais savez tu aussi parler Darija?

This is what I learned about France in school (with google translation.)  Typical American education.

  Il est un pays qui s'appelle la France
    où les femmes ne portent pas de pantalon
  Et les hommes se promener
    avec leur ding-dong traîner.

Translated back, it loses some of it's rhyme.  It came with a catchy little tune which is probably why I remembered it.  Maybe it was subtly planted by French infiltrators to provoke future tourism?

[Boussac]

If you are the owner of an instawallet balance, check out this topic I just opened:
Instawallet claim process

[Joost]

But is there any news on Bitcoin Central yet? You mentioned 48 hours, then another 48 hours and a 24 hour announcement. Seeing as there has been no such announcement yet, the second 48 hours is going to be crossed as well..

Please focus on communications a bit more. It's quite frustrating to see only so few updates, especially when instawallet is under such pressure.

[steelboy]

I just got someone to answer on this number

Administrative Contact:
  W3BFLOWS SARL
  FRANCOIS Michel
  34 rue Charles Chefson
  Bois Colombes, 92270
  FR
  +33.672332684
  650cpyijxhkip452kqfs@l.o-w-o.info

His name wasn't Michel Francois. He said he worked on a project with a friend of a friend. He sounded like he knew David Francois (the number someone (Hous?)spoke to Davout  on and that Michel is his father?

He seemed to find the whole thing amusing that I had his number and knew about the hack in general. Seemed genuine but strange his number is listed.

 

[HATA28]

The whole thing with bitcoin-central and paytunia is taking too long.
They better bring them back online ASAP, they've got 40minutes to bring up bitcoin-central back online before the 48hour deadline is reached (again).

[Joost]

The whole thing with bitcoin-central and paytunia is taking too long.
They better bring them back online ASAP, they've got 40minutes to bring up bitcoin-central back online before the 48hour deadline is reached (again).

They just broke this deadline (again). I'm really looking forward to their update now.. it better be good 

[HATA28]

The whole thing with bitcoin-central and paytunia is taking too long.
They better bring them back online ASAP, they've got 40minutes to bring up bitcoin-central back online before the 48hour deadline is reached (again).

They just broke this deadline (again). I'm really looking forward to their update now.. it better be good 

There was an announcement, but btc-central is still not online unfortunately..
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=168072.0

[Phinnaeus Gage]

All the legal information about the company is here.
For a few euros you can also get the list of the shareholders.
The corporate headquarter is in Boulogne. It's in the suburbs of Paris, you can go there with the metro. The offices are probably at the same place but the datacenter (and davout) might be anywhere in or around Paris.

Thanks, bud. I feel better now knowing that IW has been found and the police are guarding it as exhibit A.


(As they say in the trade, this photo is unretouched.)

Sometimes, you just can't make this SHIT up.

[willphase]

FYI some coins in an old instawallet I had from a while back have been moved to a new address as of this morning:

https://blockchain.info/tx/4da598abb6e6b92dc3fb68b095d4aac74eae8c7ac1bba57769772c07173b7673

Will

[steelboy]

FYI some coins in an old instawallet I had from a while back have been moved to a new address as of this morning:

https://blockchain.info/tx/4da598abb6e6b92dc3fb68b095d4aac74eae8c7ac1bba57769772c07173b7673

Will

That seems a bit strange if everything is locked down?

This must be instawallet moving it around surely?

[willphase]

That seems a bit strange if everything is locked down?

This must be instawallet moving it around surely?

Yes - I am not alarmed, they are probably just sweeping the smaller balances into a wallet so they can set up for making payments out to people within the next few days.

Will

[steelboy]

Ok, I have now seen something that i am worried about.

I have checked the address of the coins that i moved from Instawallet just before the site went offline and it is saying that the date of the transfer of the coins out was less than 12 hours after the coins were originally deposites more than 6 months ago. (I do not want to say when that was  as i may need to prive identity later.

Is this just the way instawallet worked and the transfer of the coins was to the hot wallet?

[hous]

Still have to wait for the claim form and then wait 90 days and then wait for the refund. that's around the end of july !!!! wonder if my singles from bfl will come before my refund?? better still wonder if any of it gets too me??

[panoss]

I think Vircurex is down....lol
this is surreal!