[Emergency ANN] Bitcoinica site is taken offline for security investigation

[rdponticelli]

The claim page just goes back up to the top when I hit submit. How am I supposed to know if it submitted or not?  I didn't have a position so I put 0's

Check for errors. They're not displayed in red like they should, so it's easy to miss them (like I did when I was filling the form for the first time).

Yes, check the decimal thing. You're only allowed to put 2 decimal places.

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[faidsaid]

The claim page just goes back up to the top when I hit submit. How am I supposed to know if it submitted or not?  I didn't have a position so I put 0's

Check for errors. They're not displayed in red like they should, so it's easy to miss them (like I did when I was filling the form for the first time).

Yes, check the decimal thing. You're only allowed to put 2 decimal places.

Yes, that was the issue I encountered. On closer inspection there was a message to that effect starting with a dot below the field with the edit problem. With this corrected I received a confirmation message at the top of the form upon submission and an email confirmation later.

[tarrant_01]

Ah yea it wasn't really clear whether it was an error or not. I got my email now.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Approximately, how many clients/users did/does Bitcoinica have? I'm guessing about a couple hundred.

~Bruno~

Almost 5000

Wow! I didn't expect it to be that high and didn't expect you to personally answer the question, Zhou. I'll take your response as gospel. Thanks, bud.

~Bruno~

[JusticeForYou]

Approximately, how many clients/users did/does Bitcoinica have? I'm guessing about a couple hundred.

~Bruno~

Almost 5000

Wow! I didn't expect it to be that high and didn't expect you to personally answer the question, Zhou. I'll take your response as gospel. Thanks, bud.

~Bruno~

Yea, kind of sensitive information. But, 5000 Accounts doesn't mean 5000 clients.

[Otoh]

Approximately, how many clients/users did/does Bitcoinica have? I'm guessing about a couple hundred.

~Bruno~

Almost 5000

Wow! I didn't expect it to be that high and didn't expect you to personally answer the question, Zhou. I'll take your response as gospel. Thanks, bud.

~Bruno~

Yea, kind of sensitive information. But, 5000 Accounts doesn't mean 5000 clients.

especially as he had a thread in the newbies section giving a $1 free credit to anyone who signed up for an account

[dopamine]

has anyone received their claim yet?

[djp3]

where is the apology thread?

[BadBear]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82260.0

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Approximately, how many clients/users did/does Bitcoinica have? I'm guessing about a couple hundred.

~Bruno~

Almost 5000

Wow! I didn't expect it to be that high and didn't expect you to personally answer the question, Zhou. I'll take your response as gospel. Thanks, bud.

~Bruno~

Yea, kind of sensitive information. But, 5000 Accounts doesn't mean 5000 clients.

Next thing you'll be telling me is that 55462 total members doesn't mean a hack of beans either.

[imsaguy]

Next thing you'll be telling me is that 55462 total members doesn't mean a hack of beans either.

It kinda doesn't. How many have <10 posts?  How many share an IP address because they are dup accounts?  How many have been banned?

[bb113]

Good point. There should be stats like: # of users with < 10 posts, # of users with 10-20 posts, etc. The data is there.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Good point. There should be stats like: # of users with < 10 posts, # of users with 10-20 posts, etc. The data is there.

How many were A's?

Let the name of A be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of A be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.

[kingkatari]

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[flatfly]

Hey where do those screenshots come from??

[geebus]

Hey where do those screenshots come from??

The Bitcoinica hacker posted them in IRC earlier today.

[Clipse]

Those images are posted backwards, just btw

[bulanula]

So where is the mass leak ?

Were those images it ?

[rjk]

So where is the mass leak ?

Were those images it ?

I'm guessing it's going to be all Patrick's email, unfortunately. Seems logical anyway.

[R-]

Serious  ?