Bitcoin Forum
June 16, 2024, 04:41:25 PM *
News: Voting for pizza day contest
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1] 2 »  All
  Print  
Author Topic: Will the hacker contact bitfinex?  (Read 902 times)
finexCrackED (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1
Merit: 0


View Profile
October 22, 2016, 09:23:48 PM
 #1

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?


https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/iau9WRZ49.png
monkeydong1
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 364
Merit: 250


View Profile
October 22, 2016, 09:40:56 PM
 #2

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?




It cost him nothing but a curious mind, so I don't see why he would not at least check it out.
At least that's what I would do.

European Central Bank
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1288
Merit: 1087



View Profile
October 22, 2016, 11:06:40 PM
 #3

assuming the hacker isn't bitfinex themselves, he'd be a little crazy to get in touch. any contact opens up the possibility of being located somehow. if the fbi is involved they'll have some sharp people on the case. i'm not so sure the fbi is involved though.
uhoh
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 742
Merit: 500


Circle gets the Square


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 12:10:43 AM
 #4

Options seem to be:

1. Stay quiet, keep all the money, chances of being found at this point (they seem to have left few footprints) are very slim
2. Speak up, return most of the money, increase chance of being found by making a stupid mistake.

Doesn't seem that the second option makes much sense, and Bitfinex's plead seems incredibly desperate. If the hackers were white hat and intending on returning the coins as just a lesson in security, it would have happened by now.

CoinCidental
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1316
Merit: 1000


Si vis pacem, para bellum


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 12:48:16 AM
 #5

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?




Bfx still  have control over those coins.... To think they were "hacked"  by an outsider is absurd....

Marvintymo
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 157
Merit: 100



View Profile WWW
October 23, 2016, 12:54:54 AM
 #6

This is an interesting scenario but I would be surprised if there was any cooperation from the supposed hacker(s).

http://TheScarabExperiment.org

A Shared Artist Persona for Anyone to Become.
MingLee
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 490
Merit: 520


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 02:28:46 AM
 #7

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?



Doubtful that they'll get contacted by the guy in a serious manner. The guy is likely already keeping a low profile and living either slightly richer than he was before or he's going full-blown rich in some far away place, never looking back.

They're super unlikely to get their money back.
Clement Kaliyar
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1302
Merit: 532


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 02:39:13 AM
 #8

assuming the hacker isn't bitfinex themselves, he'd be a little crazy to get in touch. any contact opens up the possibility of being located somehow. if the fbi is involved they'll have some sharp people on the case. i'm not so sure the fbi is involved though.
fbi has taken over the case because a unnamed user has filed a complaint that he lost $1.3 million from the hack,he is an unlucky individual who stored that much value worth of bitcoin in an exchange.since bitfinex is located outside US and since it is bitcoin related i dont know how the FBI is going to process this case,bitfinex is trying their best to convince the hacker to return the coins which is highly unlikely that he is going to appear again with the hack claims because that will change the hackers life if he plan to contact them
gilangIDR
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1526
Merit: 1001



View Profile
October 23, 2016, 03:33:43 AM
 #9

I think this will not happen. when we get that much money, only 1% likely to be returned. but if this is true then of course there will be changes to the price of bitcoin. bitcoin prices will certainly increase.
pooya87
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3486
Merit: 10653



View Profile
October 23, 2016, 04:21:07 AM
 #10

this is indeed strange, reading the first line of that article i thought it may be just a public stunt showing they are doing all they can to get the money back and also increasing the security of their exchange site but the rest of the article is so weird when they are begging the hacker to reveal himself for a bug bounty when he has 120K bitcoin Cheesy

.
.BLACKJACK ♠ FUN.
█████████
██████████████
████████████
█████████████████
████████████████▄▄
░█████████████▀░▀▀
██████████████████
░██████████████
████████████████
░██████████████
████████████
███████████████░██
██████████
CRYPTO CASINO &
SPORTS BETTING
▄▄███████▄▄
▄███████████████▄
███████████████████
█████████████████████
███████████████████████
█████████████████████████
█████████████████████████
█████████████████████████
███████████████████████
█████████████████████
███████████████████
▀███████████████▀
█████████
.
hawkins
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1204
Merit: 500



View Profile
October 23, 2016, 04:57:17 AM
 #11

after stealing the BTC that much, I guess they will not be contacted dai bitfinex again. Well, if they reach him, they will likely continue to be tracked until they get caught. but every thief will definitely not return to the same place if the goals they have achieved. yeah, but they really are a great hacker
unknown04
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 219
Merit: 100

Art is the triumph over chaos


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 06:07:56 AM
 #12

any sane people won't do that. unless if they cant live with the guilt. But with money, there's no guilt. I might be wrong.
jtipt
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1064
Merit: 529



View Profile
October 23, 2016, 06:25:58 AM
 #13

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?
Not likely, He does not need to contact bitfinex his hack was successful and has got the money now why would he want to give it back.
Jeremycoin
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1022
Merit: 1003


𝓗𝓞𝓓𝓛


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 06:27:55 AM
 #14

Seems weird, as we know that the hacker won't take this bait because they're not stupid. This is either the bitfinex who's stupid to think that the hacker would do it, or they just do this to pretend that they're not the guilty one.

faucet used to be profitable
criptix
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2464
Merit: 1145


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 06:31:54 AM
 #15

If he is answering he would be even more stupid then the buttfinex admins.
Fact.

                     █████
                    ██████
                   ██████
                  ██████
                 ██████
                ██████
               ██████
              ██████
             ██████
            ██████
           ██████
          ██████
         ██████
        ██████    ██████████████████▄
       ██████     ███████████████████
      ██████                   █████
     ██████                   █████
    ██████                   █████
   ██████                   █████
  ██████
 ███████████████████████████████████
██████████████████████████████████████
 ████████████████████████████████████

                      █████
                     ██████
                    ██████
                   ██████
                  ██████
                 ████████████████████
                 ▀██████████████████▀
.LATTICE - A New Paradigm of Decentralized Finance.

 

                   ▄▄████
              ▄▄████████▌
         ▄▄█████████▀███
    ▄▄██████████▀▀ ▄███▌
▄████████████▀▀  ▄█████
▀▀▀███████▀   ▄███████▌
      ██    ▄█████████
       █  ▄██████████▌
       █  ███████████
       █ ██▀ ▀██████▌
       ██▀     ▀████
                 ▀█▌
 

             ▄████▄▄   ▄
█▄          ██████████▀▄
███        ███████████▀
▐████▄     ██████████▌
▄▄██████▄▄▄▄█████████▌
▀████████████████████
  ▀█████████████████
  ▄▄███████████████
   ▀█████████████▀
    ▄▄█████████▀
▀▀██████████▀
    ▀▀▀▀▀
RyNinDaCleM
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2408
Merit: 1009


Legen -wait for it- dary


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 06:35:19 AM
 #16

this is indeed strange, reading the first line of that article i thought it may be just a public stunt showing they are doing all they can to get the money back and also increasing the security of their exchange site but the rest of the article is so weird when they are begging the hacker to reveal himself for a bug bounty when he has 120K bitcoin Cheesy

This actually makes me think that (if not an inside job) they have no idea how the hack occurred and don't know what to patch up to make the site secure.

1Referee
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 2170
Merit: 1427


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 07:30:25 AM
 #17

any sane people won't do that. unless if they cant live with the guilt. But with money, there's no guilt. I might be wrong.

If it really was a hack (which I don't beleive), and the hacker has no moral problems with stealing that many coins, then these coins will never be returned, and the hacker in question will never contact Bitfinex. Why should he? He is filthy rich. Again, I don't believe it's a hacker that stole the coins.

this is indeed strange, reading the first line of that article i thought it may be just a public stunt showing they are doing all they can to get the money back and also increasing the security of their exchange site but the rest of the article is so weird when they are begging the hacker to reveal himself for a bug bounty when he has 120K bitcoin Cheesy

This actually makes me think that (if not an inside job) they have no idea how the hack occurred and don't know what to patch up to make the site secure.

Bitfinex is just acting dumb. They know exactly what happened as I strongly believe it was an inside job. It's an attempt to distract attention pointing towards themselves. Only, their attempt to do so is very amateurish. Either way, plenty of reasons to stay away from that exchange.

# Note for all people, please refrain from quoting the entire image. It fills this thread with unnecessary clutter.
Herbert2020
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1946
Merit: 1137


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 08:07:04 AM
 #18

Bitfinex is begging again, what do you think whether the hacker will bite the bait?
Not likely, He does not need to contact bitfinex his hack was successful and has got the money now why would he want to give it back.

in 99.999% of the time it is an inside job, or even worse, it is a lie. which means they could have just simply moved the funds to a new wallet and say we were hacked.
in which case there is no hacker to contact back and this attempt is only a public stunt.

Weak hands have been complaining about missing out ever since bitcoin was $1 and never buy the dip.
Whales are those who keep buying the dip.
ethereumhunter
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 2926
Merit: 541


Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform


View Profile
October 23, 2016, 10:17:42 PM
 #19

here is my opinion. hacker is part by two side.

1. good hacker.
2. bad hacker.

good hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will contact administrator or support or someone that handle the site and tell them there is a bug in there site. and if they asked to help to fix the hole, the good hacker will help them.

bad hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will penetrate into inside of the site, and collect all the data without anyone know and maybe they will sold the data into black market.

in this situation, i think the hacker will remain silence and maybe the hacker is already read the news about that. but if the hacker is a good person, i think he will make a contact with bitfinex and make a deal with them.

but if this is just from the people inside of bitfinex itself, so this news is just to show to the member, how bitfinex is really "care" with their member and at least they giving their member a "hope" for stolen bitcoin that "maybe" can be returned.

..Stake.com..   ▄████████████████████████████████████▄
   ██ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄            ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██  ▄████▄
   ██ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ██████████ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ██  ██████
   ██ ██████████ ██      ██ ██████████ ██   ▀██▀
   ██ ██      ██ ██████  ██ ██      ██ ██    ██
   ██ ██████  ██ █████  ███ ██████  ██ ████▄ ██
   ██ █████  ███ ████  ████ █████  ███ ████████
   ██ ████  ████ ██████████ ████  ████ ████▀
   ██ ██████████ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██████████ ██
   ██            ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀            ██ 
   ▀█████████▀ ▄████████████▄ ▀█████████▀
  ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███  ██  ██  ███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
 ██████████████████████████████████████████
▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄
█  ▄▀▄             █▀▀█▀▄▄
█  █▀█             █  ▐  ▐▌
█       ▄██▄       █  ▌  █
█     ▄██████▄     █  ▌ ▐▌
█    ██████████    █ ▐  █
█   ▐██████████▌   █ ▐ ▐▌
█    ▀▀██████▀▀    █ ▌ █
█     ▄▄▄██▄▄▄     █ ▌▐▌
█                  █▐ █
█                  █▐▐▌
█                  █▐█
▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀█
▄▄█████████▄▄
▄██▀▀▀▀█████▀▀▀▀██▄
▄█▀       ▐█▌       ▀█▄
██         ▐█▌         ██
████▄     ▄█████▄     ▄████
████████▄███████████▄████████
███▀    █████████████    ▀███
██       ███████████       ██
▀█▄       █████████       ▄█▀
▀█▄    ▄██▀▀▀▀▀▀▀██▄  ▄▄▄█▀
▀███████         ███████▀
▀█████▄       ▄█████▀
▀▀▀███▄▄▄███▀▀▀
..PLAY NOW..
Clement Kaliyar
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 1302
Merit: 532


View Profile
October 24, 2016, 11:33:11 PM
 #20

here is my opinion. hacker is part by two side.

1. good hacker.
2. bad hacker.

good hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will contact administrator or support or someone that handle the site and tell them there is a bug in there site. and if they asked to help to fix the hole, the good hacker will help them.

bad hacker will do their skills to test security of the site and if they found a hole, they will penetrate into inside of the site, and collect all the data without anyone know and maybe they will sold the data into black market.

in this situation, i think the hacker will remain silence and maybe the hacker is already read the news about that. but if the hacker is a good person, i think he will make a contact with bitfinex and make a deal with them.

but if this is just from the people inside of bitfinex itself, so this news is just to show to the member, how bitfinex is really "care" with their member and at least they giving their member a "hope" for stolen bitcoin that "maybe" can be returned.
In short we call black hat and white hat hackers,where white hats are the saints,what ever may be the case the FBI will monitor the case and if at all they had any role in the hack ,then they will really pay for their greed ,but it is difficult to catch the culprit and probabily the only way they have any remote chance is when the hacker returns to have a conversation with them
Pages: [1] 2 »  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!