Bitstamp.net - ATTENTION - BEWARE!!!

[Helmut Kohl]

ATTENTION!! WARNING!!

Your Bitstamp-Accounts are NOT SAFE!!

Yesterday I opened a Bitstamp-Account. To do so, I used a drop-email-address and after copying the User-ID and PW, - immediately - deleted it the registration-email.

At 4.38 a.m. I logged into my account, at 4.40 a.m. I changed my PW, stayed logged in and transferred >8 BTC to this freshly opened Bitstamp-Account. Now there's the BUMMER:

WHILE I stayed logged in, some criminal was able to log onto my Bitstamp-Account at the SAME TIME WITH ME, using a different IP than mine. At 5.40 a.m. this criminal opened a withdrawal request to another Bitcoin-address and my Bitcoins were GONE.

Bitstamp claims they would offer two-way-authentication but what's the point of it if you get robbed even BEFORE you are able to secure your account?

Also, although this is clearly a major security-gap, Bitstamp refuses to compensate my damage! They do keep sending me messages in which they blame ME for the robbery that happened on THEIR platform. They say it's all my fault TEE-HEE.

Do not use them - in case their users accounts get hacked YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!

[greyhawk]

Yesterday I opened a Bitstamp-Account. To do so, I used a drop-email-address and after copying the User-ID and PW, - immediately - deleted it the registration-email.

So what you're saying is you used an email service that is known for it's use by scammers and most likely run by people no less shady to receive your account details and you are confused on how exactly your account got hacked?

[Bitco¡n]

Bitstamp claims they would offer two-way-authentication but what's the point of it if you get robbed even BEFORE you are able to secure your account?

Why didn't you enable two-stage authentication before sending funds to the account?

[muyuu]

It's beyond idiotic to use a drop-email to register a broker account with real funds in it.

[Helmut Kohl]

It's still a security gap if two persons can log onto an account at the same time - using two different IPs. If you guys want to adventure your deposits, fine! You have been warned.

[greyhawk]

Guys, I just bought a Porsche. The guy only had one key, but he assured me the other one had been lost a decade ago and if he ever found it he would send it on to my adress. Later today I found him in my driveway where he proceeded to open the Porsche, got in and drove away.

Guys! Don't buy Porsches. They are obviously not safe. Please don't say I didn't warn you.

[GorkaMorka]

Thank you for the warning and will try to be careful.

[pieomy]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be avoiding Porsches in the future.