Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Address Compromised

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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[Anonymous Coward]

UPDATE: The unknown agent has also seems to use the email address to compromise Satoshi ‘s account at the P2P Foundation and has now posted;-

Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn’t configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you. Thank you for inventing Bitcoin.

UPDATE2: Satochi’s SourceForge account now appairs comprised, the perpetrator, rather childishly, is now changing Bitcoin to Buttcoin in the description of bitcoin. It is important to note, the bitcoin source has not been hosted at sourceforge for a few years now but you should not download binaries from sourceforge.

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[Jesrad]

Unfortunately Satoshi's wallet is worth a mega-fortune, and it's never been quite established that Satoshi destroyed the private key. All kinds of people would give a try and shake it out of him/her, for that much money.