Quote from: UsernameBitcoin on September 15, 2014, 07:55:10 AM

Quote from: jabo38 on September 14, 2014, 08:02:02 PM

Quote from: FloodZone on September 14, 2014, 06:55:54 PM

Quote from: proofofarat on September 14, 2014, 04:37:12 PM

Looking at GMX's password recovery process, to recover an account it looks like they will either send an email to s***@v*****.com
or they will let you enter your birthdate. Perhaps somebody exploited one of these two options?
reddit formatting markdown fucked up the email address characters, but it looks like S followed by 6 stars @ V followed by 8 stars

entering birth date is rate limited to 3 attempts per 24 hrs. So probably wasn't accessed through this unless the attacker had narrowed down the range a bit

Would take 4 months max to crack the birth date.. So it's quite possible.

If somebody knew the exact calendar year, that's true. But do we really really know exactly what year he was born?

If Satoshi is only one person and not a group, just try the birth dates of

Nick Szabo, Wei Dai, David Chaum, John Nash, Adam Back, Tatsuaki Okamoto, Hal Finney, Neal King, Vladimir Oksman, Charles Bry, Michael Weber, Shinichi Mochizuki, Robert A. Hettinga, Gavin Andresen, and Ray Dillinger

and you have your Satoshi.

... it is common practice for pseudonyms to use cryptic yet significant dates, numerology or the like. 1/1/1971, 2/8/82, etc ...