where is the virtual currency theft thread?

[EE_]

List of events by BTC value stolen
In this section, each theft is listed along with its rank, severity, and time, ordered by the highest mBTC value stolen from most severe to least. To navigate to a theft, simply click on the link.


Critical (≥10 kBTC)
Rank Name Time Severity
1 Bitcoin Savings and Trust 2011–2012 est. 263024 BTC
2 MyBitcoin Theft July 2011 78739.58205388 BTC
3 Linode Hacks March 2012 l.b. 46653.46630495 BTC
4 July 2012 Bitcoinica Theft July 2012 40000.00000000 BTC
5* May 2012 Bitcoinica Hack May 2012
Unresolved as of December 2012 18547.66867623 BTC
39000 BTC total impact
6 Silk Road Seizure October 2013 27618.69843217 BTC
7 Allinvain Theft June 2011 25000.01000000 BTC
8 Tony Silk Road Scam April 2012 est. 30000 BTC
9 Bitfloor Theft September 2012 u.b. 24086.17219307 BTC
10 Bitomat.pl Loss August 2011 est. 17000 BTC
11 Bitcoin7 Hack October 2011 est. 11000 BTC u.b. 15000 BTC
* Rank includes pass-through impact

Major (≥1 kBTC)
Rank Name Time Severity
12 Cdecker Theft September 2012 9222.21195900 BTC
13 Stefan Thomas Loss June 2011 est. 7000 BTC
14 BTC-E Hack July 2012 est. 4500 BTC
15 Mass MyBitcoin Thefts June 2011 4019.42939378 BTC
16 Mooncoin Theft September 2011 est. 4000 BTC
16 Kronos Hack Unknown est. 4000 BTC
16 Bitcoin Rain 2011–2013 est. 4000 BTC
19 2012 Trojan September through November 2012 3500 BTC a. 3457 BTC
20 Betcoin Theft April 2012 3171.50195016 BTC
21 June 2011 Mt. Gox Incident June 2011 l.b. 2643.27 BTC
* October 2011 Mt. Gox Loss October 2011 2609.36304319 BTC
* Andrew Nollan Scam February 2012 l.b. 2211.07786728 BTC
22 Bit LC Theft February 2013 est. 2000 BTC
23 Bitcoin Syndicate Theft July 2012 1852.61553553 BTC
24 ZigGap 2012 a. 1708.65967460 BTC
25 Just Dice Incident July 2013 a. 1300 BTC
26 BTCGuild Incident March 2013 a. 1254 BTC
* Ubitex Scam 2011 a. 1138.98 BTC
* Bitscalper Scam 2012 est. 1000 BTC
* Unranked because USD value at time does not meet cutoff.

Borderline (<1 kBTC)
Rank Name Time Severity
27 2013 Fork March 2013 960.09645667 BTC
28 Ozcoin Theft April 2013 922.99063322 BTC


List of events by USD equivalent of mBTC at time of theft
NB: This section is outdated.

This section houses a list of thefts, from most severe to least, by the USD equivalent of mBTC at that time. Note that USD values stolen, if any, are not included, only the mBTC value.

1. Bitcoin Savings & Trust (1834303 $)
2. MyBitcoin Theft (1110544 $)
3. Allinvain Theft (502750.20 $)
4. July 2012 Bitcoinica Theft (305200 $)
5. Bitfloor Theft (248088 $)
6. Linode Hacks (230468 $)
7. Bitomat.pl Loss (236000 $)
8. Tony Silk Road Scam (150000 $)
9. Stefan Thomas Loss (128000 $)
10. Just-Dice.com Incident (121000 $)
11. Cdecker Theft (113894 $)
12. May 2012 Bitcoinica Hack (91306.46 $)
13. XBTGuild Incident (58737 $)
14. Bit LC Theft (51000 $)
15. Bitcoin7 Hack (50000 $)
16. June 2011 Mt. Gox Incident (46970.91 $)
17. BTC-E Hack (42000 $)
18. 2012 Trojan (38000 $)
19. Mooncoin Theft (24000 $)
20. Betcoin Theft (15509 $)
21. Bitcoin Syndicate Theft (12134.61 $)
U. Ubitex Scam (11668.70 $)
U. Andrew Nollan Scam (10978 $)
U. October 2011 Mt. Gox Loss (8115.12 $)
U. Bitscalper Scam (5000 $)

[ximmy]

Mine were taken in one of the 2011 Mt. Gox thefts... I'd have to double check that.

[Ares]

Mine were taken in one of the 2011 Mt. Gox thefts... I'd have to double check that.

As a promoter of Bitcoins I also think having the list of thefts scams and security issues related to Bitcoins is an important topic

Ximmy if you don't mind me asking, how many of your coins did you have taken?

[ximmy]

As a promoter of Bitcoins I also think having the list of thefts scams and security issues related to Bitcoins is an important topic

Ximmy if you don't mind me asking, how many of your coins did you have taken?

If I remember right I bought $200.00 worth at roughly $10.00 each... sooo 20 coins. All of them were taken.

[Horn]

One has to ask oneself, is stealing a dishonest virtual pretend money Bitcoin really stealing?

Or does two wrongs make it right, in this case?

[Ares]

One has to ask oneself, is stealing a dishonest virtual pretend money Bitcoin really stealing?

Or does two wrongs make it right, in this case?

Why don't you ask Jamie Dimon? I'm sure he's socked away a few billion in pretend virtual money provided by the Federal Reserve.

[Ares]

If I remember right I bought $200.00 worth at roughly $10.00 each... sooo 20 coins. All of them were taken.

That sucks.. Sorry to hear that. Did Mt.Gox address it to you via an email?

I know blockchain had some thefts because of some flaws in their mobile wallet app for android and compensated the stolen Bitcoins to its users. But it was no where near on the scale that happened with Mt.Gox..

[ximmy]

That sucks.. Sorry to hear that. Did Mt.Gox address it to you via an email?

I know blockchain had some thefts because of some flaws in their mobile wallet app for android and compensated the stolen Bitcoins to its users. But it was no where near on the scale that happened with Mt.Gox..

No, nobody said anything, I forgot about them for a few months then went to check and they were gone. nobody cared.

[Horn]

None of this would've happened if you had a the latest HAL 9000 portable device installed.



China is shipping to accommodate your blockchain...!

[ximmy]

Million-dollar robbery rocks Bitcoin exchange

Latest BTC security breach affects major European exchange, which shuts down personal wallet service


By Jon Gold, Network World
November 25, 2013 04:26 PM ET

Network World - Bitcoin Internet Payment Services, a Denmark-based exchange billing itself as Europe's biggest, was robbed of bitcoins worth more than $1 million in a theft that took place over the course of the past several days.
Bitcoins are a decentralized digital currency generated by computers “mining” for the solutions to complex math problems, and authenticated on a peer-to-peer basis – not by a central banking authority. It’s the third major heist this month – about $1.4 million worth was stolen several weeks ago from an anonymous Australian who ran an online wallet service known as Inputs.io, and a Chinese exchange abruptly vanished two weeks ago, taking more than $4 million with it.
[MORE BITCOIN: Online gaming company settles complaint over secret bitcoin mining]
Smaller thefts, which affected consumer exchanges in the Czech Republic and Poland, have also taken place this month.
In the latest incident, BIPS was apparently targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack earlier this month. A follow-up attack, according to bitcoin news site Coindesk, subsequently knocked out key security systems and allowed the thieves to make off with 1,295 BTC.
In response to the incident, BIPS said in a statement that it was forced to pull the consumer payments functionality of its services off-line, and warned users that they would have to transfer any balances to a different wallet service.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...ry-276352.html