It has been a hard week and a bit for the 50BTC mining pool.  After it was first noticed that incorrect balances were showing for users on the 20th of this month and revelations that "Our billing server have been hacked, some parameters currently shown incorrectly. At this moment we …

If you log in to you 50BTC.com account you're in for a pleasant surprise, unfortunately it is one that wont last.

It seems that someone has gained access to 50BTC's servers and managed to increase all of our balances, the website recently put up a message saying;-

Our billing …

Several bitcoin mining pools are reported to be under attack from an unknown source. The affected pools are under a heavey DDOS(Denial-of-service attack) causing unusually high loads on their pool servers and shares are being lost.

It was first brought to my attention this morning when several of my …

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 …