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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: WARNING - MTGOX HACKING CONTINUES READ INSIDE NOW
by
jgraham
on 29/06/2011, 01:49:24 UTC
Even if it were real it dosen't count as hacking...  and I can't see you being at much risk considering all you need is a user name or e-mail to initiate a password recovery.  Roll Eyes

My point was to warn people to change the password to their email accounts if they haven't done so already.
I'm aware that anyone who had one of the leaked lists could just mass-request password recovery via either username or email account; that's kind of what I am saying in the first place.


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I like the part where the community's first reaction to someone trying to spare some people a loss of their account is "LULZ"  and "BLahrblerpyeawhatever".

And I thought I was a troll to the BTC userbase.
Uh...step me through this one.   Ok someone knows your username (because it was in the DB that's sitting, among other places on my HD) and they go here: https://mtgox.com/users/forgot and type it in.   Then Mt. Gox sends an email with a confirmation # to your email address.

Now because of this you are saying we should change our passwords on our email accounts?

Why exactly?  If they're using the "forgot" page they don't even know your email address and unless your email address had the same password as your old Mt. Gox account they have little chance of guessing it.