Bitcoin Forum
May 05, 2024, 04:02:42 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Warning: One or more bitcointalk.org users have reported that they strongly believe that the creator of this topic is a scammer. (Login to see the detailed trust ratings.) While the bitcointalk.org administration does not verify such claims, you should proceed with extreme caution.
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: A brief history of Bitcointalk account security  (Read 150 times)
awesome31312 (OP)
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 826
Merit: 504


View Profile
March 01, 2022, 09:55:34 PM
 #1

Bitcointalk account security used to be really crap. In fact, they had leaked passwords. Someone bought my password from the deep web and used it, then changed the email and started using my account. Since I am regularly on and off on Bitcointalk, the dude just continued doing this shitty signature campaign and damaged the reputation of my account. Anyway, I had to provide far more information to recover my account, than the guy who had hacked my account needed to start using my account. It didn't even send out an email to me saying my password or email had been changed. The forum has done so now. I was able to recover my account, but my trust will suffer eternally as a result.

Tragic.

(It's fine though, I moved on from BTC anyways. Monero is where it's at!)

Account recovered 08-12-2019
1714924962
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714924962

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714924962
Reply with quote  #2

1714924962
Report to moderator
1714924962
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714924962

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714924962
Reply with quote  #2

1714924962
Report to moderator
Advertised sites are not endorsed by the Bitcoin Forum. They may be unsafe, untrustworthy, or illegal in your jurisdiction.
1714924962
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714924962

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714924962
Reply with quote  #2

1714924962
Report to moderator
1714924962
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714924962

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714924962
Reply with quote  #2

1714924962
Report to moderator
1714924962
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714924962

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714924962
Reply with quote  #2

1714924962
Report to moderator
Poker Player
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1372
Merit: 2016



View Profile
March 02, 2022, 07:00:04 AM
 #2

If it is true that they recovered your account, I understand that it will be something easily verifiable. In that case, I would send a PM to DarkStar_ to consider whether to remove the negative feedback.

Although I see you already opened a thread on the subject where LoyceV told you the same thing:

If your evidence is good enough for the account recovery team, it should be good enough to have red trust removed too.

If you still have the red tag, I imagine that DarkStar_ will not change it.

▄▄███████▄▄
▄██████████████▄
▄██████████████████▄
▄████▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀█████▄
▄█████████████▄█▀████▄
███████████▄███████████
██████████▄█▀███████████
██████████▀████████████
▀█████▄█▀█████████████▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███▄▄▄▄████▀
▀██████████████████▀
▀███████████████▀
▀▀███████▀▀
.
 MΞTAWIN  THE FIRST WEB3 CASINO   
.
.. PLAY NOW ..
_act_
Hero Member
*****
Online Online

Activity: 882
Merit: 1170



View Profile
March 02, 2022, 07:16:20 AM
 #3

Blammimg account hack on the security of this forum means you do not know what you are saying, I have known this forum to have good security ever since I register, probably a time in the past that such a thing happened, but after then, never again. If your account is hacked, you have to be blamed for it. If you avoid hack, your account will not be hacked. It is good to always be active and monitor your account, if anything strange is noticed, you will be able to take appropriate steps to always make sure your account is in your control. I hope you have a stake address too, if not, sign a message with your bitcoin address and post it on this thread.

▄▄███████▄▄
▄██████████████▄
▄██████████████████▄
▄████▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀█████▄
▄█████████████▄█▀████▄
███████████▄███████████
██████████▄█▀███████████
██████████▀████████████
▀█████▄█▀█████████████▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███▄▄▄▄████▀
▀██████████████████▀
▀███████████████▀
▀▀███████▀▀
.
 MΞTAWIN  THE FIRST WEB3 CASINO   
.
.. PLAY NOW ..
Welsh
Staff
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3262
Merit: 4110


View Profile
March 02, 2022, 12:39:59 PM
Merited by _act_ (1)
 #4

I'm sure if your claim is correct, you can either provide the information that you provided the account recovery team, which should be sufficient for everyone else or you could ask them to verify it themselves by posting here if some of the information you provided was sensitive.

Blammimg account hack on the security of this forum means you do not know what you are saying, I have known this forum to have good security ever since I register, probably a time in the past that such a thing happened, but after then, never again. If your account is hacked, you have to be blamed for it. If you avoid hack, your account will not be hacked.
You're nearly right I'd say. The forum was compromised, however as stated above the leak involved hashed passwords, rather than plain text. So, ultimately malicious users could brute force or use dictionary attacks against those hashes, although ultimately if you had a strong password, it would have been unrealistic to guess, so it still depended on the users security in the end.

Although, you're right there's been no known compromises since that big one where they got access to the database.
Findingnemo
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 2324
Merit: 758


Bitcoin = Financial freedom


View Profile
March 02, 2022, 02:06:14 PM
 #5

Be patient and give some time for DT members to review your PM about what happened (if you didn't make sure send PM first before take this into public). I hope your negative feedback is now irrelevant and it maybe removed and you're not alone lot of account details were compromised but now its good as long as you keep your account safe.

███████████████████████████
███████▄████████████▄██████
████████▄████████▄████████
███▀█████▀▄███▄▀█████▀███
█████▀█▀▄██▀▀▀██▄▀█▀█████
███████▄███████████▄███████
███████████████████████████
███████▀███████████▀███████
████▄██▄▀██▄▄▄██▀▄██▄████
████▄████▄▀███▀▄████▄████
██▄███▀▀█▀██████▀█▀███▄███
██▀█▀████████████████▀█▀███
███████████████████████████
.
.Duelbits.
..........UNLEASH..........
THE ULTIMATE
GAMING EXPERIENCE
DUELBITS
FANTASY
SPORTS
████▄▄█████▄▄
░▄████
███████████▄
▐███
███████████████▄
███
████████████████
███
████████████████▌
███
██████████████████
████████████████▀▀▀
███████████████▌
███████████████▌
████████████████
████████████████
████████████████
████▀▀███████▀▀
.
▬▬
VS
▬▬
████▄▄▄█████▄▄▄
░▄████████████████▄
▐██████████████████▄
████████████████████
████████████████████▌
█████████████████████
███████████████████
███████████████▌
███████████████▌
████████████████
████████████████
████████████████
████▀▀███████▀▀
/// PLAY FOR  FREE  ///
WIN FOR REAL
..PLAY NOW..
View ArchiveReport to moderator
logfiles
Copper Member
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1974
Merit: 1653


Top Crypto Casino


View Profile WWW
March 02, 2022, 09:42:04 PM
 #6

I remember advising OP to PM Lauda (though I missed out mentioning Darkstar_)  to remove the feedback since he had successfully recovered his account, but I don't think he even bothered. At that time, Lauda was still active. Unfortunately, s/he left the forum, probably for good.

Welcome back!

The hacker really made quite a mess with your account - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009408

You might wanna PM Lauda to get rid of that tag. I think your reason will be valid enough for it to be removed.

█████████████████████████
████▐██▄█████████████████
████▐██████▄▄▄███████████
████▐████▄█████▄▄████████
████▐█████▀▀▀▀▀███▄██████
████▐███▀████████████████
████▐█████████▄█████▌████
████▐██▌█████▀██████▌████
████▐██████████▀████▌████
█████▀███▄█████▄███▀█████
███████▀█████████▀███████
██████████▀███▀██████████
█████████████████████████
.
BC.GAME
▄▄░░░▄▀▀▄████████
▄▄▄
██████████████
█████░░▄▄▄▄████████
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▄██████▄▄▄▄████
▄███▄█▄▄██████████▄████▄████
███████████████████████████▀███
▀████▄██▄██▄░░░░▄████████████
▀▀▀█████▄▄▄███████████▀██
███████████████████▀██
███████████████████▄██
▄███████████████████▄██
█████████████████████▀██
██████████████████████▄
.
..CASINO....SPORTS....RACING..
█░░░░░░█░░░░░░█
▀███▀░░▀███▀░░▀███▀
▀░▀░░░░▀░▀░░░░▀░▀
░░░░░░░░░░░░
▀██████████
░░░░░███░░░░
░░█░░░███▄█░░░
░░██▌░░███░▀░░██▌
░█░██░░███░░░█░██
░█▀▀▀█▌░███░░█▀▀▀█▌
▄█▄░░░██▄███▄█▄░░▄██▄
▄███▄
░░░░▀██▄▀


▄▄████▄▄
▄███▀▀███▄
██████████
▀███▄░▄██▀
▄▄████▄▄░▀█▀▄██▀▄▄████▄▄
▄███▀▀▀████▄▄██▀▄███▀▀███▄
███████▄▄▀▀████▄▄▀▀███████
▀███▄▄███▀░░░▀▀████▄▄▄███▀
▀▀████▀▀████████▀▀████▀▀
owlcatz
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3626
Merit: 1967



View Profile
March 02, 2022, 09:52:56 PM
 #7

I remember advising OP to PM Lauda (though I missed out mentioning Darkstar_)  to remove the feedback since he had successfully recovered his account, but I don't think he even bothered. At that time, Lauda was still active. Unfortunately, s/he left the forum, probably for good.

Lauda will never be back here.

.
I  C  Λ  R  U  S
██████████
██████▀▀▀██
████▀█████▀█
██████████
██████████
█████████████
░▄████
█████████████
███████████████████
███████████████████
████████░░░▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
████████▄▄▄████████
███████████████████
█████████████████▀
░░░██
▄▄▄█
█████
░░░██
░░░██
░░░██
░░░██
░░░
░░░
░░░
▄██████
█▌░▐██
███████▀
█████████████████████
██
███████████████████
██
███████████████████
██
████▀▀▀▀████▀▀█████
██
██░░▄▄░░██░░░█████
██
███▄▄██░░███░░█████
██
███▀▀▀▀░░▀██░░█████
██
██░░░░▄▄▄▄█▀░░▀████
██
██░░░░░░░░█░▀▀░████
██
███████████████████
██
███████████████████
██
███████████████████
█████████████████████
████
██
██
██
██

██
██
██
██
██
██
██
████
████
██
██
██
██

██
██
██
██
██
██
██
████
████
██
██
██
██

██
██
██
██
██
██
██
████
████
██









██
████
████
██









██
████
[/ce
ololajulo
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 2226
Merit: 270


Chainjoes.com


View Profile
March 02, 2022, 09:56:42 PM
 #8

Anyway, I had to provide far more information to recover my account, than the guy who had hacked my account needed to start using my account. It didn't even send out an email to me saying my password or email had been changed.
Tragic.

(It's fine though, I moved on from BTC anyways. Monero is where it's at!)
What are the information requested? Until recently some of the bitcoin address of many members are from forums and non custodial bitcoin address which makes permanent loss of account here rampant. I had to go for new address lately with full custody, emails are not considered at all here.The moderator might need to be more interactive with members that loss account and respond in time, sometimes it take weeks and yet it might not be recovered. Does everyone has to open new thread in the forum before his case will be attended to?

█▀▀▀










█▄▄▄
CHAIN JOES
▀▀▀█










▄▄▄█
█▀▀▀










█▄▄▄
|
▀▀▀█










▄▄▄█
📝
GazetaBitcoin
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1694
Merit: 6564


Fully-fledged Merit Cycler|Spambuster'23|Pie Baker


View Profile
March 04, 2022, 10:55:47 AM
 #9

At that time, Lauda was still active. Unfortunately, s/he left the forum, probably for good.

The term "probably" is, in fact, "certainly". Not just Lauda left for good, but she also can never come back, as the account is banned. For those not knowing yet Lauda's situation (although I did not think there are many which don't know), please see the following quote:

I will request that theymos ban the "Lauda" account (u=101872)
Done. Lauda is banned in the same way as satoshi, such that it isn't possible to even log into the account anymore.

As a consequence, Lauda will never be able to read any PM and the feedback will always stick to OP's profile, no matter what. At least unless theymos himself decides to remove it. However, first of all, I think that OP should prove he actually recovered his account and that he is not the thief.

.
.HUGE.
▄██████████▄▄
▄█████████████████▄
▄█████████████████████▄
▄███████████████████████▄
▄█████████████████████████▄
███████▌██▌▐██▐██▐████▄███
████▐██▐████▌██▌██▌██▌██
█████▀███▀███▀▐██▐██▐█████

▀█████████████████████████▀

▀███████████████████████▀

▀█████████████████████▀

▀█████████████████▀

▀██████████▀▀
█▀▀▀▀











█▄▄▄▄
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
.
CASINSPORTSBOOK
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
▀▀▀▀█











▄▄▄▄█
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!