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		locksley on March 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flexcoin is shutting down Any word on how they were Hacked? I know that Bitcoinica, Gavin Andresen's faucet and TradeHill all got hacked through Linode's support system a while back, in which the attacker managed to reset all their passwords.

xeroxmalf on March 4, 2014 [–]

FYI, they got into TradeHill but couldn't compromise[0] any of the user accounts because of the architecture of the site.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=r2dliaaebhrctppc...

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