Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident

  • >Our internal security team immediately launched an investigation to help determine what the aim of the attack was,

    To steal people's crypto?

  • I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers

    > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses.

    3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.

  • It doesn't seem to say how the mailing list was hacked and why we shouldn't be concerned about their overall security practices.

  • Off the cuff thought, but I wonder if the early days of modern banking were marred with such blatant fraud and deceit.

    I think of stage coach robberies of US bonds, and the various bank “rug-pulls” (to use crypto fraud nomenclature) that occurred before the Coinage act of 1857 - but it’s such distant history it’s hard to find how people felt about it at the time.

    What I’m getting at is this - is crypto fraud innate to it’s very essence, or did all “advancements” in banking technology have the same problem before everyone settled in and “got used” to attempts at fraud.

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  • What I take from reading this, is that only 35k folks are interested in Ethereum.