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ALLCRYPT CRYPTOCOIN EXCHANGE HACKED INTO OBLIVION

ALLCRYPT.COM HACKED INTO OBLIVION THIS COMES STRIGHT FROM THE ALLCRYPT.CO BLOG Posted by AllCrypt Staff on March 18, 2015 Late Sunday night AllCrypt was hacked. We spent the last few days going over logs, speaking with other crypto exchange operators and law enforcement, and here is what we know. Around 8PM on Sunday (all times EDT) our marketing director’s blog account requested a password reset. Up until the writing of this post (Wednesday morning, 10am) we do not know how the thief managed to know the marketing director’s (will refer to this as MD from here) account. Our best guess is it was an educated guess based on info found (more on that in a moment). The MD saw this email come in, and forwarded it to myself, and another team member (a technical lead/temporary assistant support staff), letting us know what happened and that he did not request the password reset. I did not see the email at the time, as I was out, and it was not a huge red flag that would require a phone...