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Hacked BitcoinTalk Data Finally Surfaces On Dark Net
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Wind_FURY
on 06/09/2016, 04:04:45 UTC
This just out in the news. What are the implications of this as a regular user of BCT? Should we be worried about this?

http://themerkle.com/hacked-bitcointalk-user-data-finally-surfaces-on-dark-net/

"Just a few days ago, the data stolen from the BitcoinTalk.org hack in 2015 was posted for sale on dark net. A hacker going by DoubleFlag, is selling BitcoinTalk.org’s database. The same hacker is said to be responsible for the 68 million emails and hashed passwords from Dropbox that went for sale on dark net not too long ago.

BitcoinTalk.org was originally hacked in May of 2015, but the data wasn’t posted until a few days ago. DoubleFlag seems to have been the first one able to get his hands on it, and no one after him for that matter. The stolen data was only accessible by using data breach notification sites like Hacked-DB and LeakedSource."