It seems that hackers have decided to start to target bitcoin related services in earnest as the latest organisation to fall prey is the very popular Slush's bitcoin mining pool that usually resides at https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ .

Slush's pool is the oldest mining pool and it started with a …

An announcement on BitcoinTalk by Ozcoin mining pool operator Graeme Tee says that they will be temporarily suspended while he works out a payment issue.

According to Graeme the problem originated when he made a mistake with calculating the PPS payout (Pay Per Share) for the pool.  Apparently the last …