In the meantime: Bter robbed ~50m NXT

[gamey]

NXT withdrawal is disabled 因技术维护，虚拟币提取暂停，感谢您谅解和支持。

[xeroc]

Given that bter just got hacked, is anyone else weary of sending them money to load up on more BTSX ?

All trading "business as usual", withdrawals without issues.

withdrawals were a little slower yesterday .. took like 30 minutes (btsx) instead of the usual 2 minutes

[CalabiYau]

Given that bter just got hacked, is anyone else weary of sending them money to load up on more BTSX ?

All trading "business as usual", withdrawals without issues.

[soniq]

Been buying BTSX and PTS on Bter since hack, everything has worked fine.

Rumor going around is BTer didnt have 2factor on their NXT server, so it was the only asset effected.

Who knows if its true??? the conspiracy mob is out in force

[speedy]

Given that bter just got hacked, is anyone else weary of sending them money to load up on more BTSX ?

[Riverhead]

The Coindesk article:


http://www.coindesk.com/bter-nxt-bitcoin-exchange-hack/

[Riverhead]

The market reacts:

[38PTSWarrior]

You can watch BTER and the Hacker negotiate live


https://nxtblocks.info/#section/blockexplorer_messages

You are a god!

[Riverhead]

You can watch BTER and the Hacker negotiate live


https://nxtblocks.info/#section/blockexplorer_messages

[38PTSWarrior]

2) How was it stolen

apparently their hosting account passsword was cracked

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587007.msg8362686#msg8362686

According to Bter, they have 2factor auth on everything except one server which held Nxt. ( https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81752/#msg81752 ) According to someone claiming to be the thief, not so much (https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81888/#msg81888 )

Possible good news: Message from hacker to Bter " Okay, so I'll send everything back right now, if I get compensated."

spoiler alert! I was only on page seven.. what a morning read!

[Riverhead]

Compensate him in BTSX.  You know, something of value.

[xeroc]

2) How was it stolen

apparently their hosting account passsword was cracked

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587007.msg8362686#msg8362686

According to Bter, they have 2factor auth on everything except one server which held Nxt. ( https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81752/#msg81752 ) According to someone claiming to be the thief, not so much (https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81888/#msg81888 )

Possible good news: Message from hacker to Bter " Okay, so I'll send everything back right now, if I get compensated."

Wow .. that would make him a white hat, does it

[testz]

2) How was it stolen

apparently their hosting account passsword was cracked

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587007.msg8362686#msg8362686

According to Bter, they have 2factor auth on everything except one server which held Nxt. ( https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81752/#msg81752 ) According to someone claiming to be the thief, not so much (https://nxtforum.org/news-and-announcements/forgers-have-been-faced-with-a-choice/msg81888/#msg81888 )

Possible good news: Message from hacker to Bter " Okay, so I'll send everything back right now, if I get compensated."

[JA]

2) How was it stolen

apparently their hosting account passsword was cracked

[Riverhead]

Wow. What a mess. Will be interesting to see:


1) Can they roll it back and get BTER it's money back
2) How was it stolen
3) If they can roll it back to return BTER's NXT does that say, "no one can seize your money but they can make it vanish."

[xeroc]

they now need to gather a majority of forgers .. which might be difficult .. to revert that particular block ..

contacting 101 delegates seems to be MUCH easier ..

[xeroc]

Just received this mail from some mailinglist ..

~50 million NXT has been stolen from BTER.
The money was transferred from NXT-LSC3-VB9T-2W3V-BH7FB to NXT-8WJ7-8A2H-MBYN-3W9K4.
BTER asked Nxt community to help.

The only legit way to do it (without abusing power of developers) is to ask forgers to decide what to do:

Keep forging the current branch with 50M belonging to the thief

OR

Remove the blocks after the theft and forge another branch where 50M will belong to BTER

U still have time to roll the changes back, after 720 blocks on top it will be too late. U should try to reach Jean-Luc to get NRS version that allows to manually delete recent blocks.

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some numbers:

50mio NXT are ~5% of the supply
worth over $1/2m