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Hackers Offer to Sell 79,267 Cloudminr Accounts for One Bitcoin

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @10:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the whoops,-I-did-it-again dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has a story from The Register:

Hackers appear to have stolen the entire user database of cloud-based Bitcoin mining outfit Cloudminr.io and are offering to sell 79,267 accounts including passwords for a single Bitcoin.

The Norwegian company's website is offline and criminal advertisements showcasing some of the CSV database of members has popped up on web clipboards like Pastebin. Despite their removal, some are still accessible in web caches.

The account information could be used to access Bitcoin wallets if Cloudminr.io users have made the common error of re-using passwords.

While users have rushed to change passwords, popular review site The Cloud Mining Directory says CloudMinr.io is "most likely an elaborate Ponzi scheme" after initally labelling it possibly the largest Bitcoin mining operations in the industry.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:10PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:10PM (#209484) Journal

    It's not a pyramid scheme.

    It's a reverse funnel system.

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