Someone Withdrew Steems to Steemit with Private Keys as Memos

in blurt •  4 years ago 

Yes, recently, apart from seeing steemit starts to PD, we also notice there are two transfers to steemit with memos likely the private keys.

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May I suggest the owners of these keys immediately change their password, to avoid your accounts being compromised.

Someone may just do a bruteforce algorithm - trying combinations of account with these two private keys, it may take time, but may be quicker than your think if the keys are still valid.

There are currently 1.4M account. Let's say, we try 1 account/keys combination per second, and it will take around 16 days to crack one.

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The good thing is that these two transfers are from the Exchanges, so the owner/initiator's identities are not revealed. It will be less lucky if you accidentally put your keys as memos, which may be detected by bots and then your funds will be stolen immediately.


Every little helps! I hope this helps!

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  ·  4 years ago  ·  

I also realized that and it seemed very strange to me, 99% of the steemit account is going off.
If they sell that hundreds of thousands of tokens, what will happen to the price of the Steem token? Something very strange is happening. :(

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Good time to power up, maybe :)

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Isn't there an api call to get all accounts that are associated with a certain public key? Just convert the private key to a public one using blurtJS/steemJS and use that api call. Fortunately. It doesn't seem that the keys are associated with any account at the moment.

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Thanks for the info. Good to know this!

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

Have you communicated with him?

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

No, i don't know who to contact..

That's pretty interresting.

What do you think is going on over there?

Just JS finishing his arbitrage play, or.....?

It's been pretty strange TBH.

In your opinion, how can Blurt show itself as the kind, friendly alternative with a good dose of economic reality via transaction fees?

  ·  4 years ago  ·  

It is said that the funds will be used to cover the operation cost...
Could you make it tx free for modifiying existing posts on BLURT?