Wednesday, July 1, 2015

New Details Emerge in Bitstamp's $5 Million Bitcoin Hack

In a new document leaked from Bitstamp, one of the more popular Bitcoin exchanges in the world, the company details how a phishing attack several months ago bereft the company of roughly $5 million at then-current prices (which are not radically different from current prices). Beginning around page nine of the leaked report, which is clearly marked confidential but is already floating around numerous mirror sites since its initial leak, the document details how the company discovered an "ominous" and large data movement of around 3.5 gigabytes from Bitstamp's server to an IP in Germany. From there, the company determined […]

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