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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: InstawalletWTF on October 02, 2012, 04:09 am
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http://blockchain.info/address/16pvYcgdKGW4in3REMKFLj4HnFzwhUkFpp
http://blockchain.info/address/156MBVQw8Cetqj3wVaQShnBCSyEwCHUu3Q
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=46997.msg497596#msg497596
Several other forum members and I have had routine bitcoin transactions intercepted and sent to just a few addresses that appear to have been set up for this specific purpose.
Can someone with some experience explain what is happening? Because it looks to me like these addresses, one of which transferred 20 bitcoin out of my wallet before it ever showed up in my wallet, are consolidating about 400 bitcoins.
This is bad fucking news.
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They can't transfer them before they arrive unless they have a time machine.
sure, instawallet could have been hacked, but they are NOT A BANK (says so right on their site) you should store your BTC on your local wallet until you are ready to use them, and then hop them to instawallet, then bitfog, then bitjack,then to instawallet, then back to your wallet, then to SR, then to the vendor...or something like that.
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They can't transfer them before they arrive unless they have a time machine.
sure, instawallet could have been hacked, but they are NOT A BANK (says so right on their site) you should store your BTC on your local wallet until you are ready to use them, and then hop them to instawallet, then bitfog, then bitjack,then to instawallet, then back to your wallet, then to SR, then to the vendor...or something like that.
....I was never using Instawallet as a bank. I sent it straight from MtGox when I bought it today, and my money never made it to the Instawallet on the first "hop." It was a BRAND NEW Instawallet page, so there is zero possibility got access to my wallet through me.
It never said "processing wait 20 minutes." It never changed from 0.0 btc. The bitcoin was taken while I was on the first "hop" to Instawallet you recommend.
What else would you like to know? Perhaps that 2-4 other people are reporting their money turning up in this guy's wallet today as well?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=46997.msg497596#msg497596
Here's their official bitcointalk.org thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6785.msg1237510#msg1237510
It would seem a number of people have experienced glitches over the past couple of days. Get in touch with them before exclaiming "Instawallet HACKED- $5,000 stolen so far- DO NOT USE INSTAWALLET" ::)
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I just sent a couple of transactions both to and from instawallet. one was large enough that if someone had compromised the site, they probably wouldn't have let that one make it to me home stored wallet, but here it is safe and sound. glitched don't always mean a site has been hacked. remember when deposits were being misdirected on SR after one of the updates a few months back? probably not, but it did and does happen, cotact their support and find out what is going on, but I wouldn't panic just yet.
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Actually my bitcoin did not end up in that same wallet, it appears as though it went into a different random one and stayed there. The way it happened though it is hard to think it is not a person/program doing this on purpose. But I really have no idea how to read these things and stuff so I am not sure. I am going to wait until tomorrow and email him as that is what the FAQ says. I just hope this can get resolved, though I really do not see how it can since everything is anonymous.
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All is good in the world today.
It was simply a glitch that they were having, I e-mailed tech support and they fixed it.
I am glad I did not freak out about this, though some may think I was.
Instawallet it still awesome! I repeat, instawallet it still awesome!
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Oh, sweet. I'll remove my rampant virus-speculation, then. :)