Linode Exploit Caused Theft Of Thousands Of Bitcoins

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Submitted by Sabbetus on Thursday March 01, 2012 @08:06PM

Sabbetus writes "Popular web hosting service Linode had a serious exploit earlier today. Apparently the super admin password for their server management panel was leaked and allowed a malicious attacker to target multiple Bitcoin-related servers. The biggest loss happened to a major Bitcoin mining pool that lost over 3000 BTC, which is currently worth almost 15 000 USD. Now the question is, will Linode compensate for lost bitcoins?"
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Now I know why I can't find my bitcoin (Score:2)

by Taco Cowboy (5327) writes:

Despite invested days and weeks of major crunching, my machines don't seem to be able to come up with motherload of bitcoins
Now I know why ...
The coins end up in cloud storage sites somewhere and now the hackers got 'em
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  by tibman (623933) writes:
  
  They also use GPU mining programs :(

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