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Good point. While the chances are really high that SOMEONE will be affected in a really bad way the chances that any single person got hit is really low. But as
by blakesterz 10y ago
Good point. While the chances are really high that SOMEONE will be affected in a really bad way the chances that any single person got hit is really low. But as CEO he should be erroring on the side of caution here I'd think, because of his position. Him saying that kind of implies that it's not a big deal and no one should be taking any steps to be sure they're not the person who is in trouble.
The number of people who lost passwords is low, but it certainly happened to someone and none of us know if we're that someone.
- celticninja 10y agoI am almost certain someone is scanning archives for this data and reviewing it for anything sensitive now they know it exists. Yesterday when Google announced the SHA-1 collision, someone else took that and used it to unlock a 2.4btc reward, at the same point a bot scanning for this attempted to double spend the reward with a higher fee to claim the reward. The first guy knew how to take advantage of the information but the second guy could sit and wait for someone else to solve it and take the reward, it also meant the bot programmer wasnt in a competition with everyone to submit the solution first. Given that there are many bitcoin sites listed with cloudflare there is some potential reward in locating and scanning that data.