Going forward from this moment:
How can we be 100% sure someone coins are actually stolen? the victim could himself open an account and send the funds there....then after a period of time he then transfers the stolen funds to some new account and carries on happily ever after.
MOTIVATION: Those who have there funds stolen may get some sort of funding to compensate for their loss. An greedy individual may take advantage of this.
Because of this reason, I think only PaulyC and newcn are eligible for some type of reimbursement/ bounties for uncovering the bogus client.
Let's keep the historical record straight here. sparta_cuss reported this before PaulyC, and sparta_cuss was immediately blown off by CfB:
Quote from: sparta_cuss on January 01, 2014, 04:05:58 PM
Hey, looks like I just got robbed, too.
Someone please check this account: 12152013998194592943
They now have 147k+ from me.
Had a 40 char random password, capital, lower, numbers, symbols.
WTF?
Quote from CfB:
Can u prove that ur coins were stolen?
My account passphrase < 40 chars and contains 2M, why did the thief choose ur account instead of mine? Sorry, but ur case looks more like black PR attempt.
There's a clear pattern if you look at all the data:
Time Victim Vic Account Thief Account NXT
01.01.2014 12:56:54 plasticAiredale 8439060069775407509 15182566201738727933 18665
01.01.2014 12:58:03 PaulyC 16821029889165561706 16204974692852323982 7808
01.01.2014 13:01:45 newcn 16886318053889080545 9793828175536096502 18197
01.01.2014 13:05:06 sparta_cuss 11794318797680953099 12152013998194592943 147690
Somebody is manually stealing data at 3-4 minute intervals and Sparta_cuss was by far the most wronged. We should check the blocks / transactions/ accounts before and after this time period.