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April 11, 2013 06:24 pm GMT
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Java Applet Attack Wipes Out Bitcoin Accounts On Mt. Gox
The price of freedom, as they say, is eternal vigilance. A user called bitbully on the Bitcointalk Forums found himself 34 bitcoins poorer when he visited a site claiming to be a chat service connected with Mt. Gox, a popular bitcoin trading service. The site, wwwdotmtg(this is an o)x-ch(this is an a)tdotinfo (do not visit this site), apparently places a cross-site transfer order on the victim's computer immediately upon visiting. Because the transactions aren't reversible and the attackers are anonymous, the victims are out of luck.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lkYifYDAL5I/
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