Just found this disturbing news on the ETC subreddit. It appears as though ETC's Github has been compromised by possible hostile actors.
-- ETC Community Notice --
To the ETC community, miners, stakeholders and fanatics.
This may be the most important point in ETC's history. More important than ETH hard forking from our network.
ETC Declaration Of Independance
Crypto-Decentralist Manifesto
-- Key Information --
TRUSTED ENTITIES
Github:
https://github.com/ethereumclassic This is the only TRUSTED code repository for ETC going forward
Website:
https://ethereumclassic.org Forum:
https://forum.ethereumclassic.org/ Reddit:
https://reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic Twitter:
https://twitter.com/eth_classic Discord:
https://discord.gg/z9QjkhTRUSTED 3rd PARTY ENTITIES
ETCDEV Github:
https://github.com/orgs/ETCDEVTeam PARITY Github:
https://github.com/paritytech PARITY Wallet:
https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum IOHK Github:
https://github.com/input-output-hk MANTIS Wallet:
https://github.com/input-output-hk/mantisUNTRUSTED ENTITIES
HOSTILE Github:
https://github.com/ethereumproject DO NOT USE THIS ORG GOING FORAWRD. IT IS CONTROLLED BY MANIPULATION AND ALL SOFTWARE IS CONSIDERED A SECURITY RISK.
HOSTILE Entity:
https://www.dfg.group/DO NOT USE ANY SOFTWARE PRODUCED THROUGH THESE ENTITIES AS THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED. USE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THEY HAVE PROVEN MALICIOUS AND HOSTILE AND THERE IS NO TELLING WHAT ELSE THEY MIGHT DO. KEEP YOUR ASSETS SAFE!!
-- What Happened --
ETCDEV's development team was manipulated into making Github organizational changes requested by DFG - Digital Finance Group which runs ETC Labs to add an owner to the EthereumProject Github Organazation. After multiple requests, the developer believed to be Eric Yang a.k.a krykoder was granted ownership roles on the Github organization. Shortly following in a malicious act founded by DFG management, all original owners were removed so that DFG could have controlling access of the Github organization.
After failed attempts to have Github restore proper ownerships. Github citing their TOS and failing to do what is right, along with the unresponsive and cold nature of DFG, we came to the conclusion this was indeed a malicious takeover brought on by the hands of DFG's management team.
DFG later published a public statement talking about doing what is best for the ecosystem, and sitting high and mighty on what they think was in the best interest of ETC. They made no attempts to talk with the community, its stakeholders, or anyone else involved with ETC to come to this decision. This has now been deemed a malicious attack on the ETC network, with hostile parties controlling the original Github organization.
We made one final attempt to reach out to James from DFG in order to revert their hostile actions, but were met with silence. The same group claiming to be doing what is in the best interest for ETC has nothing to say to the 6,000 member community. This does not align with their false public statements of doing what is best for the ecosystem.
-- What can you do --
We need every community member, miner, stakeholder and fan of ETC to voice their dismay loud and clear to DFG that this will not be tolerated.
DFG intends to centralize the network, the governance behind it and the future of ETC through its software development team ETC Labs. WITHOUT ANY SAY FROM YOU!
Please share this information, write your disapproval to DFG and ETC Labs management teams and let them know this will not be an acceptable way to act on our decentralized network.
ACT NOW! Beat the war drum on the doorsteps of these malicious actors. Communicate your disgust and distrust for this move with the following public contact points:
DFG Email: [
contact@dfg.group](mailto:contact@dfg.group)
DFG LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalfinancegroup/ DFG Twitter:
https://twitter.com/DigitalFin_GR DFG Angel.co:
https://angel.co/digital-finance-group ETC Labs Email: [
info@etclabs.org](mailto:info@etclabs.org)
ETC Labs Twitter:
https://twitter.com/etclabs ETC Labs LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/etclabs/ ETC Labs Angel.co:
https://angel.co/etclabs James Wo Twitter:
https://twitter.com/woquan826 James Wo LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wo-272904114/ James Wo Email: [
james.w@dfg.group](mailto:james.w@dfg.group)
Terry Culver LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-culver-518a836/ Terry Culver Email: [
terry.c@dfg.group](mailto:terry.c@dfg.group)
Please take a moment out of your day to stand up to the corporate bullies using the same type of tactics current corporations use to bleed its users dry.
This Notice as Github Gist
Want to help? Email MikO: [
miko@ethereumclassic.org](mailto:miko@ethereumclassic.org)
Do read the entire thread, as I've not included all the links that were present in this post. be careful not to download anything from the ETC Github until further notice, stay safe!
