Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Almost every week an account being hacked.
Back to the game, still on $4300 and no ATH.
Back to the game, still on $4300 and no ATH.
I still can't fathom how they did it. I only signed in from one device. The password was stored in Chrome's manager and on my desktop, and that's it. I had a Chrome extension that wasn't properly vetted, but then I'd have thought they'd try and access my trade accounts, but nope, just Bitcointalk. It does makes me wonder if this site is compromised.
Anyway, back to up, up, up. Congrats to all hodlers.
A rough estimate on password security from http://random-ize.com/how-long-to-hack-pass/ shows only weeks/months to crack your 9 char password. No idea what security bitcointalk uses, I assume Theymos has done it properly, but perhaps they are able to brute force multiple accounts simultaneously, and you were the unlucky one.
If you are going to use a password manager you may as well use 20char passwords, eliminating brute force as an attack vector completely.
Maybe this is a good reason to change all your current passwords