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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: userabcd on March 26, 2012, 04:59 pm

Title: Unknown withdrawal ?
Post by: userabcd on March 26, 2012, 04:59 pm

I have an account on silk road.  It has a simple password.  I am not concerned because I only deposited BTC once to make a purchase.  I ended up depositing .21 BTC extra.  I noticed last night my .21 BTC was withdrawn.  Does this mean I was hacked ?  It seems unlikely given how slow tor is.  Brute-force and the addition of the PIN having to be cracked seem like too much.  Is there some process I am unaware of that took my .21 BTC?  I  made one purchase for about 22 BTC and had that change left.

Oh yea, right before this happened I got a message saying my PIN had expired.  I tried making a new one that was trivially different and got errors.

Anyone know what is going on ?  I am not worried, but I would like to keep that account because it has the start of feedback.
Title: Re: Unknown withdrawal ?
Post by: userabcd on March 26, 2012, 05:20 pm
This is not a "technical support" question as I fully understand what a "withdrawal" usually implies.  It was put in Silk Road Discussion because it is pertinent to EVERYONE if the account was actually hacked.

nice to see Silk Road has half-wit douchebag mods like 99% of every other forum on the internet.

I think there is even a sticky where the beg for money for the great job they do.. ROFL
Title: Re: Unknown withdrawal ?
Post by: wretched on March 26, 2012, 05:48 pm
you said you got a message that your PIN expired. Do you mean you got a message that your PIN was reset? your PIN should never expire, and should only be reset after an incorrect PIN has been entered 5 times. did you log in through a hidden wiki link at any time? the correct SR link is

silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
Title: Re: Unknown withdrawal ?
Post by: userabcd on March 26, 2012, 06:14 pm

I originally forgot my pin because I just signed up out of curiousity.  I then had to have it reset and support did that for me.  I went ahead and made my purchase after creating a new PIN.

10 days later I am doing something and it told me that my pin had expired and I had to enter a new one.  I tried a few times and got an error.  I was frustrated but the message went away and I didn't think much of it.

Then the next day or so I notice my .21 BTC were gone. (Luckily I don't care.)

Could this have been a man in the middle attack ?  I may very well have used a hidden wiki link at some point or a URL I found on the open web.  I'm new to the deep/dark web and have been looking around lately.  At some point I lost SR's URL because I can't/don't use bookmarks in the tor bundle.  It is likely that I acquired the URL a second time from some link somewhere but have no way to be certain.

So I guess I was hacked ?  LOL.  First time in my 20+ years on the internet I have fell victim to phishing.  Over .21 BTC!

I'm not sure how often this happens, but people should be made aware.  Thats why I was annoyed when this was put into "technical support".

I'll make sure to change all pws and never get the URL elsewhere.
Title: Re: Unknown withdrawal ?
Post by: greatgreatgrandpa on March 27, 2012, 02:21 pm
the mods do great work, typically clearing "pin reset" and "I need a .XX btc loan" threads out of the way to make room for someone who has been using the internet for over 20 years and can't identify a simple phish job, and by the preponderance of the fact that this thread is on the board, and thusly i am posting in said thread, that they are still doing their jobs very well,

dont shit on the mods here buddy, we will all come down on you, open a new buyer account, write down the silkroadvb5piz3r.onion, and start all over.

welcome to the party

ggg