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It sounds like the problem here was the OVH account's password was reset without the account owner's authorization. Why isn't critical infrastructure for Bitco
by tedchs 13y ago
It sounds like the problem here was the OVH account's password was reset without the account owner's authorization.
Why isn't critical infrastructure for Bitcoin hosted on a first-rate, known, trusted provider like Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Rackspace, Terremark, Joyent, etc.?
- babuskov 13y agoAmazon? Trusted? Don't get me started. I got my credit card info and e-mail addresses stolen from Amazon database twice in the past 5 years.
- kbar13 13y agoso anecdotal my sides hurt
- FireBeyond 13y agoHmm, I've placed 291 orders on Amazon since 2004, used upwards of 6 cards there, and not had one compromise. About as anecdotal as your story.
- babuskov 13y agoWell, I could write down card numbers, but that would not prove anything would it. I had cards used exclusively on amazon.com for 3-4 years. Suddenly, one day, I got a report from my bank that my card number is among some numbers stolen in USA and they cancelled it. As I only used it with Amazon, I can only conclude that it must have leaked from there. Luckily, I did not lose any money, as the card was blocked by the bank immediately. E-mail addresses are even better. At first I used an email I rarely used for anything else for some 4-5 years. The day I completed my first purchase on Amazon using this e-mail to open an account, was the day I got first spam message on it. And it kept flooding with more and more messages each day. Once it reached about 200+ spams a day, I decided to ditch the address and created a new one for myself and a specific new one on my domain for Amazon exclusively. It was amazn123894@[mydomain]. Anyway, when I got the first order using that e-mail, the same story happened. Now, I don't think hackers have a got a hold on the Amazon servers, it's more probable that you have employees selling the data. Especially since I never heard anything like this happening to some of my friends in western countries. I guess it's easy to decide that nobody would care or notice if a guy from eastern Europe gets screwed. I'd really like to see Amazon's internal rules of data access clearance.
- rmc 13y agoBecause the BitCoin industry is terrible at security.
- thomasjoulin 13y agoOVH is the leader for Hosting in Europe. If they messed up, they should fix it quick, but the other provider you mentioned are not perfect either.