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> "a user on the BitcoinTalk forum posted a message–since deleted by the forum’s moderators–claiming to be offering for sale a 20 gigabyte stolen database from
by fragsworth 13y ago
> "a user on the BitcoinTalk forum posted a message–since deleted by the forum’s moderators–claiming to be offering for sale a 20 gigabyte stolen database from Mt. Gox, including the personal details of all its users and even scans of their passports."
Incredibly unbelievable. It's not enough that they stole bitcoins from me. Their site made no mention of how I wouldn't be able to withdraw them for months without verification - it said "Your limit is 100BTC" and I was willing to take the risk of them holding my coins for a day or two so I could sell and buy back based on recent news. Only to find out by surprise that my risk extended for months while I was required to send them my private documents.
But also, like a slap in the face, instead of turning their servers off once they declared bankruptcy, they now they let the hacker world have access to photocopies of my driver's license, passport, home address, and gas bill?
I can't even begin to express the rage I have for this man and his lies and incompetence. I have never hated someone so much in my entire life.
- tsurantino 13y agoCan this imply that there should be some reasonable threshold for the kind of documents you give to someone in a certain context? Personally, I wouldn't give up my passport unless it was for the government or a government-certified service.
- fragsworth 13y ago> I wouldn't give up my passport unless it was for the government or a government-certified service. I wouldn't either, but Mt. Gox wouldn't send my bitcoins back without it, so I was forced to send it to them. And then they managed to lose my bitcoins and my documents.
- brubaker 13y agoI have a bridge to sell. Would you be interested?
- iamshs 13y agoI feel for you. My cousin has also lost his money and driver's license copy. Incredible amount of incompetence. He said that it is ironic that he is saying he has lost money rather than bitcoins. Also, the people who leaked this database are unto more nefarious purposes, the DB dump contained a malware file, which if run searches for bitcoin wallets on the host computer. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibannebackofficeexe_executable_is_wallet/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibanneb...
- MartinCron 13y agoAlso, the people who leaked this database are unto more nefarious purposes, the DB dump contained a malware file, which if run searches for bitcoin wallets on the host computer That's just evil genius stuff right there.
- MartinCron 13y agoA few weeks ago when BTC was trading at a huge discount on Mt Gox, I thought "what the hell" and started the process of signing up to experiment with buying a trivial amount as a lark. I'm usually skeptical (and eventually correct) about things that look like speculative bubbles, but at least there could be a story to tell. I stopped when it got to the verification phase. It's one thing to lose a few bucks that I was willing to gamble, but it's another entirely to lose my personal details and a scan of my passport. I guess I dodged that bullet.