RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 06:05:08 PM Last edit: May 04, 2014, 08:24:02 PM by RockHound |
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Is anyone else having trouble with Localbitcoins website?
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Pony789
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May 03, 2014, 06:09:29 PM |
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Is anyone else having trouble with Localbitcoins website? Yup, it is down here as well.
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johnyj
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May 03, 2014, 06:11:18 PM |
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Down here too
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May 03, 2014, 06:13:25 PM |
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Yep... seems it is globally down. DDOS ?
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 06:13:40 PM |
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Cheers J, Normally very good with their announcements/server maintenance, strange? Don't like how close to the Hour they went offline
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 06:22:56 PM |
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Cheers for the link Pony - They recently migrated to Swiss servers, hope they are not under attack!
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 06:48:08 PM |
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Hope no one was in middle of a trade Whilst Localbitcoiners are waiting for news, might as well speculate. Do you think issue has anything to do with new security upgrades? : New LocalBitcoins security features We have rolled out some new user facing security features this week. You cannot use the same LocalBitcoins logged in session across different IP addresses. This prevents session hijacking attacks against LocalBitcoins users, but may also cause minor inconvenience for the legit users. This is especially case if you use LocalBitcoins on a mobile device where your IP address may change often. LocalBitcoins may interrupt your normal website actions in the case there is a chance that the action might not be started by the legit user account owner. In this case you will get an email verification to ensure that it was you who really wanted to perform the action.
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telepatheic
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May 03, 2014, 06:51:40 PM |
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Do you think issue has anything to do with new security upgrades?
Probably not otherwise they would have issued a statement, seems most likely to be DDOS.
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 06:54:32 PM |
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Yeah, was thinking whether the site automatically closes, during a possible breach.
Pretty shit but think you are right bro.
During their last migration/upgrade last week - We all got an "Internal Server Error" screen but now, nothing as if the site is server-less
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escrow.ms
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May 03, 2014, 06:56:54 PM |
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It's down for me too.
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Bitcoin.Greece
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May 03, 2014, 07:10:59 PM |
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why they do not say something on twiter .....?
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Get a VPN - Protect yourself
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 07:20:25 PM |
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Best we can do is wait and hope they are getting a handle on this to resolve brother At least there's a few of us following, so when more news breaks, you'll hear about it
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 07:24:02 PM |
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Saturday, May 3, 2014 Attack against LocalBitcoins infrastructure 3.5.2014 LocalBitcoins received a very dangerous attack against the site infrastructure on Saturday 3.5.2014. For now
All user data and Bitcoins are safe; The site will be down for a while as the system is being rebuilt
Details LocalBitcoins hosting provided received a request to restart the LocalBitcoins.com website server and give access to the server console (root) on Sat May 3 13:32:27. LocalBitcoins team did not initiate this request. For now, it looks like the request was made using spoofed email addresses and other weakness in the hosting provider support system.
LocalBitcoins team was alerted about the abnormal activity when the hosting provider restarted the server. The attacker gained a root access to the server for ~40 minutes before the attacker was kicked out and the server shutdown. All data on the website server is encrypted. Manual actions are needed to make this data readable, so the attacker could not gain access to the data even when having a server console access.
It is very unlikely that the attacker gained access to any data; LocalBitcoins is still performing full investigation on the matter.
Bitcoins in hot wallet and cold wallet are safe, as LocalBitcoins runs its bitcoind and wallets on a separate server. LocalBitcoins team has started to rebuild the website server on fresh hardware.
LocalBitcoins team will make further announcements when the investigation proceeds and the site becomes available again. We expect to spend at least 24 hours on this. LocalBitcoins team apologizes the issues the downtime may cause to the users.
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escrow.ms
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May 03, 2014, 07:27:53 PM |
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Thanks for update rockhound.
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 07:28:30 PM |
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Cheers, German IP So looks like good-ish news, good to know they're on it?
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johnyj
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May 03, 2014, 07:30:36 PM |
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40 minutes access is a bit too long Anyway, these guys are vigilant and have enough security measures to prevent such hacking
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RockHound (OP)
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May 03, 2014, 07:36:34 PM Last edit: May 03, 2014, 07:51:21 PM by RockHound |
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Agree with you there J - That's a pretty large window!
But hopefully during that time with root access, might have left a trail for police to chase (i know that's unlikely)
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