[ANN][EXCHANGE] Poloniex - Crypto Exchange with BTC/NXT

[seasky]

 Poloniex  Unable to login.What reason.

[ebliever]

Good job and thank you for your diligence!!! I hope you are able to find server providers that take security seriously (and are willing to make good on any losses from their negligence on such matters - they ought to be insured for that sort of thing or something, IMHO.)  Just hope you can get back up in time to have fun with the PIGs this weekend... :-)

[blitz78]

Poloniex down wtf am i gonna do all day 

[codmaster]

quote, unquote, "technically", "us "(the people), cannot be, "because we are, people," unquote, bend each other over, in an enviroment, where , "we" the people, are (A) ment to,  take "b"  the power away from "c".unts" the governtments, to "C" how we can free ourslelfs from, "cunts", and sort our shit out and work together .....................

[chickenliver503]

Poloniex  Unable to login.What reason.

All funds are safe. Poloniex does use cold wallets.

What happened was an attacker used social engineering to gain root access to a wallet server. This was made possible by absolutely jaw-dropping negligence on the part of the hosting provider. Fortunately, I caught the attempt in time and was able to shut down the server before anything was taken. All BTC has been moved into cold storage, and then next step is to set up a new server with a different provider.

Please stop sending BTC to your old BTC deposit addresses. The funds will not be lost, but all new addresses must be generated, as I must assume the old wallet is compromised. It is very unlikely that it was, but "unlikely" is not good enough.

I appreciate everyone's patience while I take proper security measures before bringing the exchange back online.

[blitz78]

Poloniex  Unable to login.What reason.

wallet server was hacked mate, all good though as nothing was taken

[peer2peer360]

As Many have come to get a better understanding of the sitution on the thread

I can confirm through my own experience I've had with poloniex as a
Trustworthy exchange & not one of those Pop~Up~over~night exchanges.

Poloniex has earned my business respectfully.

Recently, Tristan & Angela handled a very unique matter
With the highest & up most integrity.

We are being assured that funds (wallets) are safe & being
Kept in cold storage..

I could be wrong usually & normally Iam
(always perform due diligence)

I agree, less interruption is always better

[Mortimer452]

Wow, that is unbelievable.  So you're saying that someone called your hosting provider, posed as a Poloniex employee, and actually managed to convince the support staff to give them access to one of your servers?  Holy hell.  One would think there would be some authentication measure in place to prevent such a thing (there probably are, they just weren't followed).

Glad to hear you are taking your business elsewhere.

[ErnieRox]

thanx busoni. i can see the trollbox has been moved here during downtime  

[MayVT]

I still waiting for poloniex, don't know what to do

[chiznitz]

Wow, that is unbelievable.  So you're saying that someone called your hosting provider, posed as a Poloniex employee, and actually managed to convince the support staff to give them access to one of your servers?  Holy hell.  One would think there would be some authentication measure in place to prevent such a thing (there probably are, they just weren't followed).

Glad to hear you are taking your business elsewhere.

Sent a full BTC in today so I was a little worried.  My question though is this.

If they allowed this server to be logged in to via root.  Are you saying that they actually edited firewall rules to allow this persons ip to access port 22?  Or was this person physically in the data center?  Or ...Do you not actually lock down your networking?

[YoyodyneSystems]

Go party on this lovely Friday night and come back later.
And while you are partying I will login the first minute the site is up and buy any and all XBC that are left.



In all seriousness Polo and it's trollbox are like my drug of choice.
I am having withdrawal symptoms. Must ... have... my Polo.


Be sure to turn on XBC market first please.

[rapeghost]

Wow, that is unbelievable.  So you're saying that someone called your hosting provider, posed as a Poloniex employee, and actually managed to convince the support staff to give them access to one of your servers?  Holy hell.  One would think there would be some authentication measure in place to prevent such a thing (there probably are, they just weren't followed).

Glad to hear you are taking your business elsewhere.

You'd be surprised man. Lots of times companies are so anxious to 1. get you off the phone 2. get issues handled quickly so they dont get bitched. Stuff slips through the cracks all the time. I used to work at a host and we had ZERO authentication methods when I started. Luckily I changed policy and made that impossible but some places just dont even think of it.

[blitz78]

Go party on this lovely Friday night and come back later.

And while you are partying I will login the first minute the site is up and buy any and all XBC that are left.

gonna hold ya to that mate

[provenceday]

thanks for the update!

much appreciated!

[andyatcrux]

quote, unquote, "technically", "us "(the people), cannot be, "because we are, people," unquote, bend each other over, in an enviroment, where , "we" the people, are (A) ment to,  take "b"  the power away from "c".unts" the governtments, to "C" how we can free ourslelfs from, "cunts", and sort our shit out and work together .....................

Meth?

[k!lowatts]

3rd time the charm 

[ErnieRox]

Wow, that is unbelievable.  So you're saying that someone called your hosting provider, posed as a Poloniex employee, and actually managed to convince the support staff to give them access to one of your servers?  Holy hell.  One would think there would be some authentication measure in place to prevent such a thing (there probably are, they just weren't followed).

Glad to hear you are taking your business elsewhere.

You'd be surprised man. Lots of times companies are so anxious to 1. get you off the phone 2. get issues handled quickly so they dont get bitched. Stuff slips through the cracks all the time. I used to work at a host and we had ZERO authentication methods when I started. Luckily I changed policy and made that impossible but some places just dont even think of it.

yep that's happened to a few businesses 

[blitz78]

quote, unquote, "technically", "us "(the people), cannot be, "because we are, people," unquote, bend each other over, in an enviroment, where , "we" the people, are (A) ment to,  take "b"  the power away from "c".unts" the governtments, to "C" how we can free ourslelfs from, "cunts", and sort our shit out and work together .....................

Meth?

lol cooked hard

[BrewCrewFan]

Fricken idiots that do garbage like this keep putting bad names on cryptos over all. Who wants to deal with cryptos when attacks like this always happen? Scares people away and really hurts everyone including themselves in the long run.