security issues at bitmain?

[majestymage]

i have received a call from a china allocated number for a "limited" and "special offer" done by bitmain regarding the sell of a antminer s11. the caller had my correct phone number and also one of my email addresses. i do not trust the "offer" and i think the bitmain customer data has been breached. ideas ?

[psycodad]

i have received a call from a china allocated number for a "limited" and "special offer" done by bitmain regarding the sell of a antminer s11. the caller had my correct phone number and also one of my email addresses. i do not trust the "offer" and i think the bitmain customer data has been breached. ideas ?

I received this from Bitmain a few days ago, maybe you didn't get it or missed it:

Dear subscriber,

We have recently learned that someone has been calling Bitmain customers. The phone number appears to be our customer service number in China. The caller claims to be offering an "S11" miner. Rumors of a Bitmain S11 miner have been going around the internet for several months.  Bitmain does not offer an "S11" miner and has made no announcement of such a miner.

Please be advised that Bitmain never contacts customers by telephone to announce new products.

For more detail please see this article: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/fraudulent-websites-and-scams-alert/

For official updates and Bitmain news please follow our blog: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/

For information on our products please refer to our official website or Twitter account. You may also subscribe to email announcements.

We continually monitor our system to ensure the security of customer information. Thank you for your continued support.

Best regards

The Bitmain team

[majestymage]

hell...i did received it, but i missed it. anyway..the issue stands..they had a security breach. 

[psycodad]

hell...i did received it, but i missed it. anyway..the issue stands..they had a security breach. 

You probably missed another email from them 08/23/2017:

Dear users
      Because our other old system attacked by hackers, part of user data leaked. We recommend you reset your credential information immediately.
Any other account use the same credentials should also be updated immediately.
       We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

尊敬的用户你好

   由于我们其他老旧系统近期遭受到黑客攻击，部分用户信息被泄漏。为确保账户安全，请您立即更新认证信息。
其他任何使用相同认证信息的其他平台账号也建议立即更新。

    给你带来的不便表示歉意。

[ccgllc]

But to answer your question:  Yes, it appears they had a data breach since the fraudster had your contact information and knew you were interested in miners.

[d2bg]

Data breach was a little while ago.  For example, I made an account a couple months ago and did not get a call.