Stop us if you've heard this one before, but the day after it went
down for mysterious reasons, crypto-currency wrangling site
Dogevault.com has confirmed someone stole its kibble.
“On the 11th
of May, the Doge Vault online wallet service was compromised by
attackers, resulting in a service disruption and tampering with wallet
funds,” the now-sparse site says at the time of writing.
“As soon as the administrator of Doge Vault was alerted, the
service was halted,” the author continues. “The attackers had already
accessed and destroyed all data on the hosted virtual machines.”
The outfit is “in the process of identifying the extent of the attack and potential impact on user's funds.”
The
site says it is “salvaging existing wallet data from an off-site
backup”. That leaves it on the cusp of becoming either a backup success
story or yet another cautionary tale about how startups don't take
backup seriously. Those who entrusted their Dogecoin stashes to the site
will be hoping for the former.
If there's any upside here it's
that Dogevault.com held only a few tens of thousands of dollars worth of
the canine-inspired currency. While that's still not good news for
those who may be out of virtual pocket, it is at least far less than
went missing from Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox.
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