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The Hack at ShapeShift

17 pointsby swalbergabout 9 years ago

4 comments

neopalliumabout 9 years ago
This story (on two different websites) was posted twice [0],[1] about a month ago.<p>[0] is by the same author as this post (Erik Voorhees CEO of Shapshift).<p>[1] is by &quot;E. Gün Sirer&quot;<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem to have any new content.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11550765" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11550765</a><p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11565823" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11565823</a>
dcposchabout 9 years ago
this is easily the most riveting and stomach churning &quot;incident postmortem&quot; that i&#x27;ve seen.<p>the story has a lot of layers to unpack. if you care about infosec, read it. if you&#x27;re running an organization and have employees in positions of trust, read it.<p>then audit your permissions, make sure nobody in your org has excessive access, set up offsite logging, and hope this doesn&#x27;t happen to you
elevensiesabout 9 years ago
I think the 2nd hack was Bob&#x27;s exit plan. By selling the info to the hacker and compromising the employee computer, he is setting up the &quot;who?&quot; and the &quot;how?&quot; to point away from himself, and hoping it will also be used to explain the 1st theft. Except it didn&#x27;t work very well!
JoachimSchipperabout 9 years ago
Among the many charming details, do also note the author&#x27;s choice of words in &quot;social serfdom number&quot;.