Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
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Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#2Lots of talk about this being setup and a way to get out of taxes (which are apparently due tomorrow in the US). Any chance this could be the case?
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#3The livestream had nothing to do with it. Here's how he says he thinks he was hacked (from the bottom of the article):
"This is how I think I got hacked. My college email was listed as a recovery email to my Gmail. I remember getting an email about it being compromised, and tried to follow up with my college security to get it resolved, but wasn’t able to get it handled in fast manner and gave up on it thinking it was just an old email.
I kept text versions of my private keys stored in my Evernote, as encrypted text files with passwords. I think they hacked my email using my college email, and then hacked my Evernote."
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#4Lots of talk about this being setup and a way to get out of taxes (which are apparently due tomorrow in the US). Any chance this could be the case?
Definitely possible but kinda hard to know for sure.
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#5The livestream had nothing to do with it. Here's how he says he thinks he was hacked (from the bottom of the article): "This is how I think I got hacked. My college email was listed as a recovery email to my Gmail. I remember getting an email about it being compromised, and tried to follow up with my college security to get it resolved, but wasn’t able to get it handled in fast manner and gave up on it thinking it wa…
The time stamps of the purported transfer took place during his livestream so the headline ("during a livestream") is correct
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#6Lots of talk about this being setup and a way to get out of taxes (which are apparently due tomorrow in the US). Any chance this could be the case?
Losing money in 2018 would not affect 2017 income tax.
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#7Lots of talk about this being setup and a way to get out of taxes (which are apparently due tomorrow in the US). Any chance this could be the case?
How would this affect 2017 taxes though if it happened in 2018?
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#8The livestream had nothing to do with it. Here's how he says he thinks he was hacked (from the bottom of the article): "This is how I think I got hacked. My college email was listed as a recovery email to my Gmail. I remember getting an email about it being compromised, and tried to follow up with my college security to get it resolved, but wasn’t able to get it handled in fast manner and gave up on it thinking it wa…
The time stamps of the purported transfer took place during his livestream so the headline ("during a livestream") is correct
Yes, understood, but it seemed to me like an irrelevant and misleading detail, as if he accidentally revealed his passwords or some other security detail on camera.
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#9Keys kept in plaintext on Evernote.
Re: Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
#10Keys kept in plaintext on Evernote.
From the article: "I kept text versions of my private keys stored in my Evernote, as encrypted text files with passwords."