Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox Suffers Serious Attack, Instawallet Offline 388
Bruce66423 writes "The BBC reports that Mt.Gox, the main exchange dealing with Bitcoins, has been attacked, and other resources are off line. A scary reminder of how insecure ALL money is in the computer age..." Also at TechWeekEurope. A message at bitcoin storage service Instawallet's site begins "The Instawallet service is suspended indefinitely until we are able to develop an alternative architecture. Our database was fraudulently accessed, due to the very nature of Instawallet it is impossible to reopen the service as-is."
Yet the value of BitCoin keeps on rising (Score:2, Funny)
Why does it smell like tulips in here....
Re:Is it? (Score:5, Funny)
And if you did trust it on a server somewhere, would that server be "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange"?
(Or are we supposed to forget that that's what "MtGOX" stands for?)
Re:Is it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it? (Score:5, Funny)
The big sack of pennies under my bed is as secure as ever.
Security through bad-guys-not-carrying-a-forklift... Clever.