This is yet another embarrassment for those overseeing the Mt. Gox bankruptcy, with one Reddit user quipping that the fright was karma for criticizing how incompetent the entire operation has been.
It’s been a horrible 10 years for the early Bitcoiners who lost everything in the Mt. Gox hack — with 850,000 BTC stolen before their very eyes.
After seemingly endless delays and disappointment, there is finally a glimmer of hope that they will soon receive some compensation from the doomed exchange, which tipped into bankruptcy.
But as if creditors hadn’t suffered enough, there were fresh fears of a new attack this week — with some receiving dozens of emails notifying them of malicious actors logging into their accounts.
Efforts have now begun to reunite victims with 141,000 BTC that were later recovered, and it seems an opportunistic individual might be trying to swoop in and steal crypto that isn’t theirs.
After all they’ve been through, that would really rub salt into the wounds of those who have been out of pocket for a decade.
“Just received 15 notifications for account log in. Now can’t get into my account. Is mtgox under attack???” one user wrote on Reddit.
They later expressed relief that the online system doesn’t allow visitors to change where payments are sent.
It seems @ovkovk was not alone, with others flocking to the social network to say the same thing had happened to them.
“I would guess some attacker has a record of all (or a whole lot of) gox emails and trying to brute force their way in. It has happened before,” @Joohansson replied.
On the bright side, it seems like a quirk with the website’s email system means that the mysterious individual was unsuccessful with their attempts — despite these emails saying they had logged in.
“The problem with their system is they send that “you have logged in” email BEFORE you enter the 2FA code, so a bit misleading.”
@Joohansson
One user put this theory to the test by attempting to get into their account with a bogus password —
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