As you can hear MtGox is big bitcoin exchange and it got hacked last week. Exchange admins said database was leaked with password hashes. Some of weak passwords were computed and hackers started sell-off bitcoins and excahge rate down to 0.01 USD for BTC. Admins stopped operations on the site and promised rollback all hacked transactions. A few hours ago MtGox went back online and started transactions. Current prices are 17.5$ per BTC.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Bitcoin exchange MtGox back online after hack
As you can hear MtGox is big bitcoin exchange and it got hacked last week. Exchange admins said database was leaked with password hashes. Some of weak passwords were computed and hackers started sell-off bitcoins and excahge rate down to 0.01 USD for BTC. Admins stopped operations on the site and promised rollback all hacked transactions. A few hours ago MtGox went back online and started transactions. Current prices are 17.5$ per BTC.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Protect Bitcoin wallet from stealing - How to
Today first anti-virus company Symantec has reported that it found a new Trojan in the wild stealing Bitcoin wallets. The Trojan name is Infostealer.Coinbit and it looking for Bitcoin wallet.dat file on computer's disk to send it to the hacker. To protect your wallet from stealing by such type of trojans Symantec recommends additionally to general security actions to encrypt your wallet and choose a strong password for this in the event that a hacker is attempting to brute-force your wallet open.
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