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January 31, 2011, 09:24:27 PM
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I'm freaking out.  I just checked my mtgox account and all my bitcoins are gone.  It's says they were withdrawn to paypal.  I think it got hacked.  Anybody else?
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January 31, 2011, 09:25:20 PM
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I have all my bitcoins and USD, all .11 and .49 respectively. I hope that you weren't hacked - how much did you have?
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January 31, 2011, 09:29:02 PM
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That sucks man, I hope you get your coins back. Looks like the price was lowered again - I checked the mega chart and the .9 range sales seem to be missing.
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January 31, 2011, 09:30:47 PM
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mike: I don't think that's really possible. Due to its very nature Bitcoin is likely to be used for a lot of transactions where people don't exactly want to advertise that they're buying something. Voluntary reporting systems would therefore be too inaccurate.

cryptofo: "withdrawn to Paypal"? Literally? That makes little sense for two reasons - Paypal doesn't support Bitcoins,  and AFAIK Mt. Gox doesn't support Paypal.

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January 31, 2011, 09:33:17 PM
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I know totally, I'm freaking out.  Can I print screen shots?  It looks like someone got into my account sold all my bitcoins and then somehow withdrew them through paypal.  AAjhhhhhh
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January 31, 2011, 09:35:28 PM
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Just take a screenshot and post it, I'm interested.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm
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January 31, 2011, 09:49:12 PM
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I tried to post it, but it said it was too big so I uploaded it here.

http://www.urbanethanol.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bitcoins.jpg
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January 31, 2011, 09:53:22 PM
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This is crazy, I would think if someone hacked my account they would just send themself my bitcoins, but they actually sold them then withdrew money in a way that you can't withdraw through paypal.  Worse they sold them when they were at .42. 
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January 31, 2011, 09:55:47 PM
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this is the email I just got from someone at mtgox:

Looks like you sold them and sent them to Liberty reserve account: U0764959

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:45 PM,  <xx> wrote:

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xx

Quoting Jed McCaleb <admin@mtgox.com>:
What is your username?

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:22 PM,  <xx> wrote:

I just logged into mtgox and all my bitcoins are gone.  I'm freaking out.
 What happened, please respond.
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January 31, 2011, 09:56:51 PM
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This is crazy, I would think if someone hacked my account they would just send themself my bitcoins, but they actually sold them then withdrew money in a way that you can't withdraw through paypal.  Worse they sold them when they were at .42. 

mt gox doesnt do paypal withdrawals.
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January 31, 2011, 09:58:32 PM
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How strong was your password?  Does anyone else who has a clue about Bitcoin have access to your computer?

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January 31, 2011, 10:12:39 PM
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No one has access to my computer, but my password wasn't very strong.  It looks like it came from this ip address 77.222.42.204 from st. petersberg russia.
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January 31, 2011, 10:15:32 PM
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Mtgox just told me someone was running a dictionary attack. 
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January 31, 2011, 10:32:53 PM
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Account Information

Account Number U0764959

Account Name Cyber

Account Type User

Created On 11/22/2010 02:41

Balance (USD) hidden

Balance (Euro) hidden

Balance (Gold Grams) hidden
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January 31, 2011, 10:40:51 PM
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I'm so depressed, imagine my surprise to log in and see that the price had almost doubled then to realize my bitcoins were gone.  Almost funny when you think about it.
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January 31, 2011, 10:48:02 PM
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It's possible that the owners of the two sites might be able to fix it, I'm not sure. They're not irreversible like bitcoin transactions, so it might happen.
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January 31, 2011, 10:58:38 PM
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I'm still worried about the suddenly disappearing entries in the orders book. There also was an entry with price 'NaN' (not a number) which could indicates a bug in data validation.
About the dictionary attack: protecting the login using a captcha might be a good idea but in my opinion doesn't replace a good password (12+ chars, good entropy).

Btw, this is my first post. Hi everybody Smiley
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February 01, 2011, 12:35:06 AM
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My account have nothing to attack.  Wink

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February 01, 2011, 12:49:01 AM
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Yeah, I specifically don't keep anything in my mtgox account because it seems insecure, same reason I don't trust mybitcoin. I keep my own computer secured, and past that, so if I keep my wallet on my computer and have an encrypted backup, I should be good.
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February 01, 2011, 01:00:21 AM
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Unless every password looks something like this one you'll be vulnerable.  Smiley

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