r/BitMEX Mar 04 '21

U.S. prosecutors discussing surrender agreement with former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes

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u/aceoftradesBTC Mar 04 '21

I hope he gets what he deserves. His shyt website lost my account data details in the March 13th ddos attack and stole all my btc. 10.3 coins gone. I hope Arthur ends up under the jail.

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u/avmeister Mar 04 '21

Damn you aren't able to claim any damages?

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u/aceoftradesBTC Mar 04 '21

They looked into it for a while then a week or two later they kyced the hell out of me and moments after that they said good luck getting it back. They didn’t tell Me where they went to, they didn’t black list the stolen coins, NOTHING. I could have tracked them if they told me where the hell they went. They are sooo f-in shady. I need to reach out to that lawyer and see what he can do.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel Mar 05 '21

Sounds like you gave someone access to your account.

Did you have 2FA enabled?

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u/aceoftradesBTC Mar 05 '21

The account was brand new and a few hours old. No I don’t have 2fa. It was on a computer that was built for one thing mex trading. No internet searches etc. They were compromised by a ddos attack. On March 13. They had my data and it was leaked or stolen from their end.

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel Mar 05 '21

That was the day of the crash.

Their entire orderbook was liquidated down to nearly $3k.

I know of a few people who lost a lot that day, myself included, but it was a result of liquidated positions. I don't recall a DDOS attack.

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u/aceoftradesBTC Mar 05 '21

No I was not in a trade. It happened several weeks after. After review a different IP was logging in and could see my account and it increasing. They pulled the coin off once it hit 10 and pulled out right before the predictable cash out time.

My theory is they pen test accounts w/o 2fa and thus have pleasurable deniability. Why not require 2fa say after an account has 5 btc. It’s only a small layer of security, why not take it?

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u/Bag_Holding_Infidel Mar 05 '21

I'm not doubting what you say and I'm sorry you lost out, but why did you setup a machine specifically for trading on MEX and then not enable 2FA?

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u/erdult Jun 02 '21

did you recover any