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Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

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Re: Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

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So what, just a couple of years worth of work at Google as a SWE.

The problem is that most people tricked into "investing" in such platforms probably don't make anything like a software engineer at Google. This loss hurts them a lot.

Re: Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

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This might as well be a scam created by the CEO himself. I mean, who in this 'crypto world' would be stupid enough to use the same, previously compromised, password on all his accounts?

P.S. there was a story on reddit (can't find it now unfortunately) about how the attackers tried to deposit the money to Bittrex but luckily someone alerted them and the exchange froze the account. So there is still some hope that funds will be returned.

Re: Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO

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From what I can tell, the ICO wasn't hacked as such. The ICO customers were just scammed. Edit: title is better now

The attackers gained control of the official website, slack channel, Twitter handle and mailing list. That's even worse than what happened to coindash.
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