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Re: [OFFICIAL]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading
by
Indamuck
on 09/02/2014, 04:58:29 UTC
Bitfinex - Please contact me IMMEDIATELY - there is unaccountable activity in my account.

I have 'auto-renew' on, but funds have been sent to the exchange wallet and BTC bought. Also, I couldn't login, had to change the password ... wtf?? Auto-renew is still on, but I'm holding BTC that I never traded ...

It looks like someone was preparing to make a withdrawal .... omg. Damage right now is that I own BTC at a bad price ... but can be reversed. But we need to figure out what has happened ...

Did you try to contact them by e-mail?
Sorry if your account was highjacked : / No 2-Factor-Auth enabled?

Looks like my password was compromised - someone got access to the account and was accumulating BTC in preparation for attempting a withdrawal. No withdrawals were made, but due to buying BTC/LTC during the market decline, my account is down about 5% in value. Clear evidence they were trying to gain authorization to make a withdrawal - fortunately that failed.

Not Bitfinex' fault ... but I'd like them to have a look, in case they can spot a pattern across other accounts and/or advise me on improving security.

For the record I've been traveling heavily these past several weeks and logging in at multiple airports / unsecured networks. My password could have been snagged anywhere, in retrospect.