Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Address Compromised

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 8, 2014 @07:33PM from the or-as-he-likes-to-be-called,-bitcoin-batman dept.

ASDFnz writes: Satoshi Nakamoto, the respected (and currently missing) inventor of Bitcoin, seems to have had his email address compromised by an unknown agent. Satoshi exclusively used one email address when he was active in the Bitcoin community: satoshin@gmx.com. If you have a look at the original Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF), you will find it there at the top just under the title. He also usually signed his correspondence with his PGP signature. Earlier today, the head administrator of Bitcointalk, Theymos, received an email from Satoshi's email address that appeared to originate from GMX's servers. Theymos made a post on the Bitcointalk forums saying he had received an email from the address without Satoshi's PGP signature. Later, the unknown agent posted to other Satoshi accounts.

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Re:WRONG! by ASDFnz · 2014-09-08 19:45 · Score: 5, Informative

His address expired and someone re-created it.
Nothing to see here, move along...
Even if that is true (and I am not saying it is) it has lead to a host of his other accounts being compromised.
Hardly nothing to see, it is actually quite big. One of the bitcoin download sites (SourceForge) was compromised;-
http://mineforeman.com/2014/09...