MtGox charged me a $45,300,000.0000 for selling 10 BTC today.

I made the sale just as they came up for business, or at least I thought they were up for business. My guess is they they were still running tests but the system allowed me to make the trade. I was very surprised to see a $-45,299,848.52300 in my account.

I submitted a ticket to the service department, and next time I checked the account, 4 hours later, all was back to normal. The sale is still valid and no fee is showing at all for the transaction.

Go easy on this guy, he could be for real.

There is an "ownski" on the leaked MtGox accounts list with a non-salted encryption, easily cracked to an 8 character password.

He probably used the same password on many sites (including his Gmail account), just like many others did, *probably some of you*. He was just unlucky enough to have been an early MtGox user who came in before the salted encryption came about.

Resolved in hours? You mean like the Sony Playstation Network hack? 

The fact that it hasn't been resolved in hours is a positive thing. We really don't want a *quick* fix for this situation, we want a *secure* fix. The MtGox system was was hacked, with funds and secure data stolen. Over 61,000 users have had their email and password publicly posted on the internet. While those passwords are encrypted, they are certainly breakable given some time.

Every user will need to have his account validated and a new password assigned before being able to access that account, with 61,000 users, that will take some time.

You also seem to be confusing MtGox with a real financial institution. It is not. MtGox started out as "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange", trading online game items. It has no backing (much like BitCoin itself) and no official guarantees (again, like BitCoin). I'm sure "he" is doing the best he can given the situation, it looks like every effort is being made to get us back to our accounts and back to business.

Yes, it looks like that: "Your account recovery request is pending review by our staff."

With over 61,000 accounts that could take a while.

If they took only one minute to validate each account, that would be over 1000 man-hours, or over 42 days. Hopefully there is a team of workers or an automated system in development.

The linked to article is completely accurate. The opinions in the comments are mixed, but many make interesting observations that ring true, even if they are negative..

Maybe it is us here are are biased ones...

No. Any email can have any reply-to address.

If you examine the *full* header of the email, you should be able see the actual path of where it originated. An application such as Mozilla Thunderbird allows this under "View-Headers-Full". I don't think most web-based email reader easily allow this.

I rarely see *any* CPU usage with single 6870 with a Pentium 4 CPU with Windows 7. In fact the system is used for basic graphics work in a production environment (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.) and runs GUIMiner 24/7. The only time Windows Task Manager shows any CPU usage (1% for a half second) is when GUIMiner reports a share accepted.

I'm getting about 290 Mhash/s from this card, although that diminishes slightly when graphics work is being performed (even moving the cursor.) Al tasks seem to have priority over GUIMiner.

I'm just running the suggested "-v -w128" flags.

Yes, you are on the list, along with your gmail address, number 3419 out of 61,016 users listed at MtGox.

Understand that the passwords are not directly readable, and must be run through some fairly intense computational power to crack. Very similar to the way BitCoins are mined, actually. Takes a *long* time...

However, I had a 20 character password, using both letters and numbers, and exclusive to MtGox. Looks like my email address was changed in my account and I can't log into my account. I have to assume it lost.

Just change all your passwords that are similar and associated with that address.

But MtGox is not a financial institution. It is just a guy who started trading online game items,  (Magic The Gathering Online eXchange) and progressed to BitCoins. 

Hopefully he will and is financially able to do the right thing. If he doesn't try, MtGox as a BitCoin exchange is over. Of course, if things are as bad as some people are hypothesizing, MtGox is finished anyway.

Let's hope things work out.

How much funds did you lose?

17 BTC and a dollar value of under one dollar.


To what address were your stolen funds sent?

There is no way to check, as I couldn't log in with my email address.


What OS are you using (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX ...)?

Windows 7, all updates current.


How long was your old password?

20 characters.


Was your old password random?

Not random, but generally considered "strong". Certainly not guessable.


Was your username the same on Mt. Gox as on the forum?

This is my first post, having just registered for this topic. Same as DeepBit though...


Did you use your Mt. Gox password somewhere else?

No, but a 10 character variation of it was used at DeepBit. Now changed.


Did your old password contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, special characters and numbers?

A mix of lowercase and numbers.


Have you used any Bitcoin-related software, and if yes, what software? Think about things like miners, wallet managers, etc.

Only GUIMiner v2011-05-21


Please also include a screenshot if possible so we know it's a real report.

No screenshot available, as the MtGox account is inaccessible. I reregistered at MtGox and sent in a ticket describing my situation.