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Hackers appear to have stolen the entire user database of cloud-based Bitcoin mining outfit Cloudminr.io and are offering to sell 79,267 accounts including passwords for a single Bitcoin. The Norwegian company's website is offline and criminal advertisements showcasing some of the CSV database of members has popped up on web …

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  1. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge
    Happy

    Amusingly

    As if the scamminess of cloud mining wasn't enough, many of those upstanding citizens who tried to buy the list got scammed themselves. It's scams all the way down in bitcoinia.

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  2. Ken Y-N
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    The currency of the Internet!

    Well, at least the part of the internet occupied by scammers, spammers, drug dealers, ransomware authors, DDoS As A Service providers, and any amount of other seedy activities.

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  3. FF22

    Bitcoin - the currency of losers

    I yet have to see a single instance where some Bitcoin-based operation doesn't turn out to be pure marketing puff and/or some kind of scam.

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    1. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge
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      Happy

      Re: Bitcoin - the currency of losers

      How very dare you! I shall sue!

      My online Bitcoin bank is perfectly safe and secure. Join Ruptcy Bank today! The bank that likes to say Yo!

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