THELOGICALINDIAN - Canadian bitcoin startup Coinkite which afresh shuttered their web wallet and launched their new disposable accouterments wallet aloof appear a aegis apprehension advice that they may accept leaked a archetype of their user database
They didn’t specify exactly how they may accept leaked the database, but that they did while in the action of turning off servers, disabling firewalls, and charwoman up advancement systems. It’s accessible that a awful hacker may accept been targeting them alive that their systems were actuality shuttered, and was able to accommodation the database during this window of time.
Here is the security notice in full:
Unfortunately, above users of the web wallet will now be affected to email phishing scams and the like. The acceptable account admitting is that as Coinkite stated, the passwords were absolute and hashed; about it’s acceptable aegis convenance to not reclaim passwords and if you appear to absolutely do that, and accept a countersign from Coinkite that you use elsewhere, that you change it immediately.
