BTC-e might have been compromised

[newIndia]

Friendly reminder to withdraw your funds from exchanges. BTC-e might have their account database compromised. However, nothing indicates that their wallets have been compromised.

See here and here

As BTC has scaled new high across various exchanges, these news are expected.

[lite]

I never got such email and i hope never get it. although i had received an email to confirm login on blockchain.info. i have 2fa all over my accounts, so no worries.

One thing that a lot of people do which is absolutely and totally wrong is using the same email/pass combination in more than one place.
And believe me a lot (seriously A LOT ) of people do it.

This basically gives access to hackers/crackers to all of their content.

The second thing is I hope that after all the news we heard about exchanges running away with the money or getting hacked, no one still leaves their money over there.

That is very true. You have to create accounts for more than 100 websites and how is it possible that you can remember all 100 unqiue password? So that is why many people end up the same password for everything. They just dont think of anything serious like being hacked, but rather they want ease to have access to their account. And this is the extremely vulnerable victims that the hackers will target.

that's why there are password managers to remember unique and strong passwords for you!

[salfter]

Friendly reminder to withdraw your funds from exchanges. BTC-e might have their account database compromised. However, nothing indicates that their wallets have been compromised.

See here and here

I dont think that the wallets have been compromised but I think if there was a leak it was the records of BTC-e users. I am referring to the email-address of the users, these details may have been compromised and the hackers are using those details to send false information to the BTC-e users to click a Phishing link so they can access your account and can take over your wallet. This is not only happening to BTC-e but to other sites as well and the only thing that we must do is to be very careful in clicking links in our emails.

I received such an email recently, only it was a phishing attempt on LocalBitcoins.  I know BTC-e is to blame, though, because the email address within was a TMDA sender address only valid for email from BTC-e.

[JamesBold]

Just got this jem of an e-mail from a payroll provider for an old job:

"Hello,

You may have seen published reports of a security breach on BTC-e, a Bitcoin exchange, that may have exposed private information, including emails, for 568,000 users. The list of compromised BTC-e accounts has been uploaded to the web. We have compared this list to our user email addresses and found that the email address you used to register for your [] account is on the list of exposed BTC-e accounts.

[] has not been compromised and is not connected to this incident, but if you used the same password for [] and BTC-e, you should immediately change your [] password.

Here are some additional tips for keeping your information in [], and other websites, safe:

For additional security, you can set up two-step verification for your [] account in your account preferences. For more information about two-step verification, please read the following help center article.
Avoid using simple passwords based on dictionary words.
Never use the same password on multiple sites or services.
Never click on ‘reset password’ requests in emails — instead go directly to the service.
If you have any questions or concerns, our [] Care team is here to help!

The [] team"

[tleilaxu_eyes]

Okay, well the account database thing doesn't really mean that people should withdraw their funds from BTC-E.

No if this is true than this also suggest that someone else also have access to site database which can lead to security breach. So it is advised to withdraw any balance you have there, no any web wallets or exchange platforms are safe to have your bitcoin.

Exactly. Has everyone forgotten MtGox already?

[Thiet]

And BTC-e does not exist anymore