Cryptopia hack

[Eric01120]

quelques nouvelles intéressantes: https://news.bitcoin.com/hacked-nz-exchange-cryptopia-allowed-to-reopen/

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[cestmoi]

quelques nouvelles intéressantes: https://news.bitcoin.com/hacked-nz-exchange-cryptopia-allowed-to-reopen/

cet article est mieux (local)


https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110556217/cryptopia-could-reopen-but-founders-are-keeping-silent

[ginette]

Premier tweet depuis 15 jours pour Cryptopia...

[cestmoi]

En partie Anglaise ils rigolent pas.
Lafu, Xtralev et un nouveau gars (Bentheanonmod) se font arroser de questions et de vacheries.

Sinon moi je suis passe par leur bureaux et j'ai fais quelques photos :

So I stoped by, it was 5:30pm (somewhat kind of late for office workers).
The lights were on but I didn’t see anyone through the windows of the ground floor.
I took a few pictures, it kinda looks empty.









On the upper floors there was also some lights on.

 
I didn’t have a pen in my car (to write the date and my ID), I had to use some kind of nail polish / paint that I found under a mat.





Funny observation, that had one of the wall repainted today.


Maybe to cover a tag, who knows....

[kenzawak]

En partie Anglaise ils rigolent pas.
Lafu, Xtralev et un nouveau gars (Bentheanonmod) se font arroser de questions et de vacheries.

J'ai pas suivi et honnetement j'ai pas le courage de tout lire.
Tu m'expliquerais le lien entre ces gars et Cryptopia stp ?

T'avais des fonds sur l'echange cestmoi ?

[cestmoi]

En partie Anglaise ils rigolent pas.
Lafu, Xtralev et un nouveau gars (Bentheanonmod) se font arroser de questions et de vacheries.

J'ai pas suivi et honnetement j'ai pas le courage de tout lire.
Tu m'expliquerais le lien entre ces gars et Cryptopia stp ?

Alors Lafu (qui arbore une signature Cryptopia) est un modérateur volontaire sur le "forum" de cryptopia.
Je ne suis jamais vraiment alle sur leur forum, c'est un peut genre un "newbie" zone.
Pendant longtemps je croyais que Lafu était un employe de cryptopia, mais ce n'est pas le cas.
Il avait un referral link dans sa signature mais plus depuis le coup du hack. Peut être pour ne pas être accuser de "shill" sa signature.



Idem pour Xtralev

Lafu never claimed he worked for Cryptopia and Xtraelv pointed out they are both Volunteer moderators based on their long standing track record with Cryptopia since the start.
Any other pointless things you want to bring up so I can dismiss them?

Quand a Ben, il est modo volontaire sur le Discrod officiel de cryptopia.  EDIT : c'est modérateur paye
Il vient de se creer un compte sur bitcointalk donc est "newbie" ici.




En gros, edit Timelord certains /editet d'autres accusent Cryptopia d’être un exist scam uniquement base sur le fait que depuis 1 mois rien n'a bouge.
Mais aussi surtout que depuis 3 jours (message de la police disant que cryptopia a de nouveau access aux locaux) le site web n'est pas accessible et qu'on ne peut pas retirer nos fonds.

Je suis pas expert en info, mais bon un échange ca se redémarre surement pas comme une 4L (la voiture).
Surtout que ils n'ont pas confirme que la vulnérabilité ait été supprimé.


Moi je me contente juste de passer devant leur bâtiment de temps en temps et de prendre des photos.

T'avais des fonds sur l'echange cestmoi ?

Pas grand chose, juste deux ou trois coin qui ne sont pas accepter ailleurs.
Genre 200$ maxi.

Quelques semaine avant le hack, j'avais été prévenu via une connaissance (un ancien employes de cryptopia) que ca pouvait partir en couille tres vite car ils avaient fait de gros changement niveau sécurité et pas dans le bon sens.
J'avais pas grand chose dessus, mais j'ai tout mis sur mes wallets et sur d'autre échanges.  

[kenzawak]

Ok, merci pour les precisions.
Le probleme de ces petits echanges, c'est que t'es souvent oblige de passer par eux pour les "petites" coins.
Jamais je ne laisserai de grosses sommes sur un de ces sites.

[GrosWesh]

Quelques semaine avant le hack, j'avais été prévenu via une connaissance (un ancien employes de cryptopia) que ca pouvait partir en couille tres vite car ils avaient fait de gros changement niveau sécurité et pas dans le bon sens.

Salut cestmoi,

Assez intriguant ce que tu racontes là...

Pour ma part Cryptopia avait mis un mois a effectuer un withdraw que j'avais demandé debut 2018. Depuis ce jour je m'étais promis d'éviter d'y retourner. A part comme le dis kenzawak pour certaines crypto quasi introuvables ailleurs. (et encore  )

[cestmoi]

Ok, merci pour les precisions.
Le probleme de ces petits echanges, c'est que t'es souvent oblige de passer par eux pour les "petites" coins.
Jamais je ne laisserai de grosses sommes sur un de ces sites.

Tu vois le hic c'est que Cryptopia est un petit echange mais ils ont quand meme 1.3 million de client.
Au moins 100 staff et jusqua Janvier (ou fevrier 2018) ils avaient un stable coin NZDT

Ce qui etait tres pratique pour FIAT/Crypto dans les deux sens.

Alors oui ils sont bien moins gros que Binance, mais en NZ, c'est/etait le principal echange.

Et pas mal de "newbie/1st time coiner"  on laisse leur coins dessus car c'esy plus simple, pas de risque de se tromper en envoyant les coins ....
Bref imagine tes grand parent ou ton oncle qui est se sert juste de son ordinateur pour jouer a démineur.

On leur a vendu cryptopia comme étant la pépite locale, le Tesla du Bitcoin made in NZ ....

Sinon, que tu laisse tes coins pendant 12 mois ou juste 1 jour pour faire un trade, si l’échange se fait hacker tu cours toujours le meme risque (meme si dans le second cas il est plus faible).

[BenTheAnonMod]

"A few weeks before the hack, I was warned via an acquaintance (a former employee of cryptopia) that it could go to bed very quickly because they had made a big change security level and not in a good way."

I would recommend you share this information with the Police via crypto@police.govt.nz

When Ben, he is a volunteer modo on the official Cryptopia Discord.

Also, I'm not a volunteer mod.

[cestmoi]

"A few weeks before the hack, I was warned via an acquaintance (a former employee of cryptopia) that it could go to bed very quickly because they had made a big change security level and not in a good way."

I would recommend you share this information with the Police via crypto@police.govt.nz

No need, i am pretty sure the police would already have interviewed all the former employees of the company and asked the right questions.

When Ben, he is a volunteer modo on the official Cryptopia Discord.

Also, I'm not a volunteer mod.

Sorry Ben, I must have misunderstood your messages and i guess made connections that are not right.

You mean like the twitter updates (latest one yesterday) which are being constantly updated via our discord pinned messages here https://discord.gg/bcYkX5w which I am just an "Anonymous online mod" of.

Do I really need to get Lafu/Xtraelv to come in here and vouch for who I am just to shut you up? Feel free to come talk to me on the Cryptopia Discord... Fuckin lol mate

But if you won't come talk to me on the Official Discord to prove who I am, chances are I'm wasting my time with you here... considering all you do is name call like a child...

I though you were a moderator on the Cryptopia discord channel (as per the quotes and the bold parts), if you are not then you are just a cryptopia fan boy (there is nothing wrong with being a fan boy, i am too a fan boy, i've met the guys a few time for pizzas and at the old location).

Edit :
En français :
Je me suis peut être trompe, Ben n'est peut être pas un modo du discord Cryptopia (meme si il en a tout l'air)
Ben est modo du discord de cryptopia, et il est paye pour ce role

[BenTheAnonMod]

"A few weeks before the hack, I was warned via an acquaintance (a former employee of cryptopia) that it could go to bed very quickly because they had made a big change security level and not in a good way."

I would recommend you share this information with the Police via crypto@police.govt.nz

No need, i am pretty sure the police would already have interviewed all the former employees of the company and asked the right questions.

When Ben, he is a volunteer modo on the official Cryptopia Discord.

Also, I'm not a volunteer mod.

Sorry Ben, I must have misunderstood your messages and i guess made connections that are not right.

You mean like the twitter updates (latest one yesterday) which are being constantly updated via our discord pinned messages here https://discord.gg/bcYkX5w which I am just an "Anonymous online mod" of.

Do I really need to get Lafu/Xtraelv to come in here and vouch for who I am just to shut you up? Feel free to come talk to me on the Cryptopia Discord... Fuckin lol mate

But if you won't come talk to me on the Official Discord to prove who I am, chances are I'm wasting my time with you here... considering all you do is name call like a child...

I though you were a moderator on the Cryptopia discord channel (as per the quotes and the bold parts), if you are not then you are just a cryptopia fan boy (there is nothing wrong with being a fan boy, i am too a fan boy, i've met the guys a few time for pizzas and at the old location).


En français :
Je me suis peut être trompe, Ben n'est peut être pas un modo du discord Cryptopia (meme si il en a tout l'air)

I do moderate Discord, I'm just not a volunteer.

[cestmoi]

I do moderate Discord, I'm just not a volunteer.

I updated my original with this new information : you are a paid moderator of their discord.
It makes you a contractor or an employed.

Which one are you ?

[BenTheAnonMod]

I do moderate Discord, I'm just not a volunteer.

I updated my original with this new information : you are a paid moderator of their discord.
It makes you a contractor or an employed.

Which one are you ?

If you were in the discord, it says what I am... Anyone could have checked

[cestmoi]

I do moderate Discord, I'm just not a volunteer.

I updated my original with this new information : you are a paid moderator of their discord.
It makes you a contractor or an employed.

Which one are you ?

If you were in the discord, it says what I am... Anyone could have checked

Dude, this is not discord, no one wants to go to discord to find out who you are.
Either you say what you are, or you don't and no one cares ?  (did i hurt your feeling ?).
I made a mistake assuming you were a "volunteer" moderator when a french member asked who was that newbie account acting like the messiah.
I was still kind of right, you are a moderator, just not doing it for free.
So now, if you are paid like an employed or as a contractor who cares.

[BenTheAnonMod]

Ok. Since you won't contact the police with the information you have provided here, I'm starting to doubt your statement. More FUD by the sounds of it.

[cestmoi]

Ok. Since you won't contact the police with the information you have provided here, I'm starting to doubt your statement. More FUD by the sounds of it.

OMG you are a troll level 9000 !

beginning of Edit :

If you were in the discord, it says what I am... Anyone could have checked

Are you "Ben Dxxxxxx". (i don't want to doxx you, so i will not put the rest of the family name).
If you are, then you are not a troll, you are just not very good at communicating and a bit fast a jumping on your guns ! End of edit


If you haven't noticed this is the french part of the forum,
Do you see people posting in Russian, Spanish, Greek in the English section, so why are you posting in English here ?


You know what, you report me to the police based on what i have written, if they want to talk to me they can contact me here.
I will gladly go and talk to them, and will tell them who gave me the information once they provide all the necessary paperwork.

That information was given to me to the condition that i don't divulgue my source.
This is New Zealand, not Russia, they want to know who told me what, they provide a paper from a judge and i will break the anonymity of the source.

Now, at the time of me getting the information (17th of November)  I only shared it with my family and a couple of mates (one of them was like, "no way you are right, i know the guys, they are doing great things" edit : if you are Ben D. my mate may even have offered you to check with you if my information was legit, at that time you were in America end of edit).
Since it was just a recommendation from a former employee I restrained myself from going to the media or sharing on Facebook or here.
I don't / didn't care about fame or buzzing. I just made sure i gave the info to the people that mattered to me just in case there was some right behind the info.
Spreading FUD is not my type.

But i see that you are quite butt-hurt by the situation, and obviously only "google translated" part of my message.
I wrote a message praising cryptopia  and that i've been a customer for years and referred about 20 new customers.
You are the one hand picking part of my message trying to do who knows what with my writings.

[Yaplatu]

Ok. Since you won't contact the police with the information you have provided here, I'm starting to doubt your statement. More FUD by the sounds of it.

C'est qui ce mec, il prend cestmoi pour un sheriff ou quoi

En tout cas merci pour tes retours sur cette affaire cestmoi

[Timelord2067]

En gros, Timelord et d'autres accusent Cryptopia d’être un exist scam uniquement base sur le fait que depuis 1 mois rien n'a bouge.

Um no.

I have been trying to tell xtraelv and Lafu (and by extension "Ben") that there are three online articles which state categorically that the CEO has been instructed to say nothing and that they (xtraelv, lafu and "Ben") should also refrain from saying anything.

xtraelv then turned it into an attack on me including placing me on his DT negative list after he tried to hijack my thread concerning online articles about Cryptopia.

You've done some great work posting photos and reporting from Christchurch, but you're mistaken when you say that I've said it's an exit scam.

Feel free to post any proof to the contrary here or in the main Cryptopia (English) thread.

I apologise for not speaking French.

Do you know who "Dave" is?

[cestmoi]

@timelord
Indeed I may be mistaken on this point.
I skimmed the English thread to get the feeling.
It looked like you were against lafu and xtralev. And I know for a fact that they are loyal to cryptopia.
It made you a vilain in my eyes.

I should not have included you in the "autres" (others) that are saying that cryptopia is a scam. My apologies, I will edit my post.

I agree with you on the point that cryptopia CEO should at least do some kind of press release about the current situation. This is not some kind of FBI / DOD terrorist attack. It is a roberry.

By now they should know how much was taken and what they are going to do about missing funds. Mutualise the losses ? Give free shares ? Issue an IOU coin ? Sell assets (shares) to reimburse....