BitCoin hack, massive sell off

peet · Post by **peet** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:03 pm

Bitcoin panic. Bitcoin accounts hacked by rogue Lulzsec member, tried to exchange several $M at MtGox, now panic.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/22/comprom...+%28Engadget%29

https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208 ... t-rollback

peet · Post by **peet** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:26 pm

Total collapse of bitcoin value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1X6qQt9ONg

l1ngus · Post by **l1ngus** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:03 pm

I want to quote from the comments of the linked video:

"bitcoins are @#(!coins"

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:22 pm

Lulzsec are idiots. The "freedom" they want is the freedom to burn phone booths and steal stuff when they like. I hope they get a good smack in the face for their troubles.

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:27 pm

Yup.

Never saw the point of trolling for the sake of it myself. It's the equivalent of school-yard bullying....

UK news was saying someone got arrested as being part of Lulsec - but the twitter feed was playing down how much he was involved.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:30 pm

I've not heard of any lulzsec links, [citation needed] please?

re about guy who was arrested:
According to https://twitter.com/#!/anonesc it was the guy who ran IRC they used and all 6 members of lulzsec are 'safe' (search for "6 safe #lulzsec" for the tweet). Lulzsec say he was jsut a IRC server guy too (and that the police are just arresting people who might know who they are) https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec