I did not knew that this forum has faced 3 hacks in the past. This is really something to worry about as out information is also disclosed to the hackers. Was the forum able to catch any hacker in any of the cases above ?
Hackers are very hard to catch. I don't think any of the hackers have been caught for the forum hacks.
I have a feeling--and I'm probably stating the obvious here--that a lot of hacked bitcointalk accounts have been sold outside of this forum, because I've seen numerous old-time accounts that suddenly woke up in October 2017, changed their writing style, and started posting in a typical bounty hunter fashion. Shitposts in the Altcoin Discussion section, mostly. I tagged a number of them one night after doing some "research" in that section.
This is definitely a good write up, OP. I don't know much about hacking so I won't criticize the security of the site--but it would appear to be pretty lax. But I'm sure a lot of that has to do with people not having strong passwords and so forth.
This is definitely a good write up, OP. I don't know much about hacking so I won't criticize the security of the site--but it would appear to be pretty lax. But I'm sure a lot of that has to do with people not having strong passwords and so forth.
A site run remotely from multiple locations is hard to secure. I'd say the site itself is reasonably secure. Individual accounts are a different story. I'm sure password1 and 1234 has been used on here.
Why CosbyCoin is not on the coinmarketcap? I have heard of it for the first time but want it already!
The http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/tag/cosbycoin/ might have more info about it.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46945.msg558903#msg558903 I think it briefly existed.
Is there any chance to hack bitcointalk forum again? But not type hack like above. What I mean is like some hacker will make an anonymous account which immediately has legendary rank or another else maybe? Or someone can manipulate merits system? If it comes to be true, I'm afraid they can't be detected. As we know too many accounts before merits system is implemented, only use their activity can rank up and earn free merit without getting sMerit. Though they earn sMerit the proof of merit summary will disappear after 120 days.
There is always a chance of a hack. But there are many eyes watching this forum. Lessons learned from previous hacks and Vod has an analytics site http://dev.martinlawrence.ca/bpip/ that logs and watches bitcointalk.org. A lot of info is archived as well. A new instant legendary account is unlikely because it will be accompanied with a no post history. Your posts, unless deleted stay forever.