Quote from: NOP@SSWORD on March 14, 2017, 08:12:08 PM

Most of those accounts are newbies. What are the benefits of hacking newbies?

Take a look at this thread where these newbie hacked accounts are used for trust farming/false trading.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1793966.msg18067586#msg18067586

Quote from: NOP@SSWORD on March 15, 2017, 12:35:00 AM

Quote from: rizzlarolla on March 14, 2017, 10:14:49 PM

No. real owners do not log in in rota
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9000 jakeroxs 0 post November 24, 2016, 08:47:41 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9003 Micro333 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:18:36 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9005 Qrr 2 post February 19, 2017, 01:28:59 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9009 Trance555 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:28:07 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9011 twadsworth 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:16:27 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9012 FictionWobbles333 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:27:05 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9013 MoodFool333 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:28:08 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9014 marish 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:38:06 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9015 BlackRunner111 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:15:55 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9016 jhallsworth 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:28:12 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9020 carter 0 post February 19, 2017, 01:20:13 PM

Hundreds of thousands of accounts have recently been hacked. Until we hear otherwise from admin.

In your example above seems it is own by one owner, I think he is checking his accounts. Look at the pattern of 3 numbers after the word and the "worth" word added at the end. It is not coincidence.

Micro333
Trance555
FictionWobbles333
MoodFool333
BlackRunner111

twadsworth
jhallsworth

I agree this example does possibly show a bunch of farmed accounts, However they are still hacked.
If you continue clicking through u=# from 9020, you will keep finding time rota Feb 19 log-in accounts.
What of " https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9183 A nice moving avatar" is he no hacked, just "the farmer checking in"?

Did you read/understand this previous link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1702409.msg17974610#msg17974610

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All Feb 19 accounts (shown here) "reactivated" within 25 minutes.
(there is a shed load of other feb 19 "reactivations" elsewhere, look at u=2000 - 2020 @11.00am, or u=3000 onward @11.30am, or u=4000 onward @11.45am, or u=7000 onward @ 12.00pm, or u=8000 onward @1.15pm for example, a clear timeline pattern) - edited for more clarity.

Can you see the connection to all these other accounts log-in in time rota? (you will have to do some clicking)

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Quote from: achow101 on March 16, 2017, 12:09:02 AM

It's possible that someone got their hands on the old hacked database from May 2015 and decided to actually attempt to get into accounts with info that they gathered from that database.

Another possibility is that some site Bitcoin related was hacked and people got their hands on their databases and are checking to see if there are reused passwords to get into bitcointalk accounts. For example, recently a database dump from 2014 of btc-e's database reached HaveIBeenPwned so it is likely that that database was floating around publicly for a bit of time beforehand and is still available. So people might be using that to match accounts on btc-e to accounts on the forum and then trying passwords to see if there is any reuse.

Unfortunately the forum can't really do much. If the admins lock accounts which have not changed their passwords and then send password reset emails to all of those accounts, a lot of people will be locked out because emails aren't validated and a lot are either invalid, or just point back to bitcointalk.

Either someone has "got their hands on the old hacked database from May 2015 and decided to actually attempt to get into accounts " or it is an inside job.

"Another possibility is that some site Bitcoin related was hacked.." that is highly unlikely to account for the mass "systemic hack" we are seeing here.

"Unfortunately the forum can't really do much" Same as hilarious said.
Several hundred thousand accounts "systemically hacked" - admin do not even respond.