Showing posts with label Bitcoin Talk. Show all posts
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Saturday, 5 October 2013

Bitcoin Talk forum hacked; Database for Sale by Hacker; Website currently down

Bitcoin Talk, the popular Bitcoin discussion forum, has been hacked and as it stands the site is currently unreachable.
Bitcointalk has been down for nearly 6 hours. The forums have been allegedly hacked and Defaced by “The Hole Seekers” and selling 150,000 emails and hashed passwords stolen from Bitcointalk.org for 25 Bitcoins, where the passwords are hashed with sha256crypt.