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Mt.Gox is hacked by Anonymous

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This list was proven fake - the data came from some other breach and this pastebin is just attributing it to a new hack. Here is the original sourced information (usernames and emails): http://pastebin.com/Kd093NQi

(I'm not going to flag this post for one reason - this pastebin has been passing around, and while there are other mtgox issues right now, this one is false and people should know that before spreading it further.)

I'm surprised by the proportion of yahoo email addresses. There are 662 of them.

They're the third largest email provider on the planet. Any list of emails should be largely comprised of Yahoo email addresses.

Absolutely, but they comprise ~2/3 of this list.

Assuming phishing/java/trojan/etc. was the vector, I think it there's probably some correlation between people dumb enough to be phished successfully and people using yahoo email addresses in 2013.

What's wrong with Yahoo email compared to, say, Gmail or Hotmail?

Repeated security breaches with Yahoo mail over the past year.

A general focus on unsophisticated, non-technical users, which means users are much more likely to be easily victimized.

Looks like no takers on the full db dump.

https://blockchain.info/address/1NMuzGzxDccvqwLvMuEuTRZSwJ6M...

Is this a hoax?

Does this data come from phishing instead?

Appears to be a dup of: http://pastebin.com/LxmisuVJ

There was a similar purported 'hack' [1] posted yesterday that was just recycled Pastebins in attempt to scam Btc.

[1] http://pastebin.com/eti9hAHN

Could be related to yesterdays story about the trojan targeted at MtGox users? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531245

I assume it was the targeted phishing thing with the java applet someone already reported, but maybe pretty widespread.

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