Duh, Bitcoin.org Website Hacked By Hackers!

Bitcoin site hacked by hackers (Cryptopost)

JAKARTA – The actions of hackers often disturb many parties. On Thursday, September 23, the biggest crypto site Bitcoin.org was reported to have been hacked by hackers. This was conveyed by the web operator under the pseudonym Cobra.

Reporting from Bitcoin.com News, Cobra revealed that hackers could apply a scamming model to multiply Bitcoins and warned that the site would not be active in “a few days”.

Cobra reveals that “Bitcoin.org has been compromised.” He also admitted that he was investigating the hacking activity which used a fraudulent mode.

“[I am] currently investigating how the hackers installed a fraudulent model on the site. It will probably be down in a few days”.

The fraud mode is in the form of Bitcoin doubling. Hackers will entice people to deposit a small portion of their Bitcoins with the lure that their holdings will double. Several people who deposited their Bitcoins were never returned.

The scammer is said to have stolen 17,000 US dollars in Bitcoin when a fake page was posted on the Bitcoin.org website yesterday. Some mention that the scam wallet is not making as much money as promised on the website.

“For context, 3 people have sent $100, 1 person has sent around $200, the rest (0.4 BTC) appears to have been sent as a way to make the 'gift' appear legit, so the coin is likely [a] scammer himself", said one person. does not wish to be named.

DNS attack

nuke.asia said “it appears that the domain has been taken over. The WHOIS info was updated at the time of the hack, the nameservers + DNS changed, and if you try to visit any of the actual pages other than the index, you'll get a 404. It's a completely different website, except for the domain name”.

On the other hand, Cobra revealed that he had reported the incident to the Cloudflare company and asked for help.

“Bitcoin.org has never been hacked. And then we moved to Cloudflare, and two months later we were hacked. Can you explain where you direct my traffic too? Because my real server didn't get any traffic during the hack. @Cloudflare @eastdakota", Cobra tweeted.

When asked if his account was hacked, Cobra admitted that none of his accounts were hacked. He also mentioned that the server is also in a safe state. But he thinks that the hackers seem to be exploiting several weaknesses in DNS.