Bitcoin.org Hacked

[velmu]

https://twitter.com/thebluematt/status/1440886266409537538

[rvz]

Oh dear. [0]

[0] https://archive.is/ERUpl

[cable2600 → rvz]

They got hacked. The old free Bitcoin scam. Into a black hole it goes, nothing comes back to the poor users.

[verdverm]

https://bitref.com/1NgoFwgsfZ19RrCUhTmmuLpmdek45nRd5N

[Nextgrid → verdverm]

That's only around $17k. Much lower than what I expected.

[xiphias2]

It's not the worst they could do...serving malicious bitcoin code is much worse, as currently only command line tools can check the integrity of a new downloaded Bitcoin core client.

[bakkdoor]

It's completely down now.

[verdverm → bakkdoor]

cut off at the DNS level it looks like

[terom → verdverm]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1440896036487245...

indeed

  bitcoin.org.            86400   IN      NS      dummysecondary.pleasecontactsupport.com.
  bitcoin.org.            86400   IN      NS      blockedforabuse.pleasecontactsupport.com.