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Newest update: Apparently someone got the whole user account database of Mt.Gox I wont publish the link to it though for obvious reasons. Quick analysis: the database is legit, it contains user id, username, email if set, and a bcrypt hash. The hashes seem salted with a global salt.
I don't think the db is public, it's being sold for a price.
Lower limit of $0 a bitcoin showing there, did someone really dump bitcoins at $0.01?
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More likely, people trying to make bank when (not if) it happens again.
Ah, true, taking advantage of market glitches. I should add some positions for that, too :-)
In a regulated exchange it's certainly possible. Is it possible with bitcoin? Once the block is away...it's away.
I looked at bitmarket.eu but they have a manual verification process, which I'm sure would not complete until after the price recovers. Oh well.
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So it was... I confirmed my username is in there but at least passwords are hashed. Luckily, I never added an email address and used a different Username and pw than I do everywhere else. Gotta take precautions with bitcoin!
Doesn't look as if passwords were salted, though :-( (Edit: just read in another comment that there seems to have been a global salt)
Mtgox hacked database listed for sale (pastebin.com)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670302
pointed to: http://pastebin.com/ui0nusuZ
which says:
I have hacked into mtgox database. Got a huge number of logins password combos.
Mtgox has fixed the problem now. Too late, cause I've already got the data.
Will sell the database for the right price.
Send your offers to：
gfc06@hotmail.comThere's an alleged database dump of Mt Gox floating around... https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392 UPDATE: looks legit. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0 https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...
Damn, I'm in there. Glad I used a generated password (from LastPass) so I don't have to change my passwords on a lot of various sites.
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> and despite there being no government regulation, the exchange stepped in, protected their customer, rolled back the trades and protected the market You know that's basically the same thing - central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market, canceling transactions it's deemed 'fraudulent' between two independent consenting entities. "Free hand of the market" ain't present here, chief - this…
> central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market MtGox certainly is not central authority . If you stop being their customer, they will have just to live with that.
That's precisely the theory behind free governments the world over, to wit: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed". Except we all know in practice there are barriers to withdrawing consent from the government, just as there are surely barriers to leaving a market.