ESEA bitcoin-huijaus

Aika mielenkiintoinen huijaus. Lyhykäisyydessään ESEA oli koodannut käyttäjien ESEA-clientiin bitcoin minerin, joka aktivoitui aina, kun käyttäjä oli ollut 10 min idle. Tienasivat ilmeisesti noin 3600$ ennen kuin jäivät kiinni. Aika vakavaa ottaen huomioon, että huonojen tuuletinasetusten myötä on voinut monien näyttis kärähtää. Pelaajia koijataan.

Myönsivät tapauksen. Väittivät kai ensin aprillipilaksi, sitten sanoivat clientissa tapahtuneen jonkin häiriön. Jep jep :smiley:

Lisäänpä tähän vielä Ipkanen (co-owner of ESEA) lausunnon:

#1 lpkane
first make sure you read part 1 of this developing story:

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=492134

now for the more interesting news:

  1. this has been running since april 14th, and definitely explains the virus warning due to the miner being a separate process

  2. there were a total of 3 wallets on 3 pools set up for the test with the following addresses:

  • 50btc: 1NsEeuxWB4ZvjVrxZcsmeMktDJPG5m4NCn
  • btc guild: 13X5R8tTGkvZnsvFd12AHqwpF2hp34QKUa
  • slush pool: 1NLy5djpAeU7uVNQ8meLQ4CweFU1hNfkQP
  1. over the 2+ weeks it was apparently running, a total of 29.27627734 btc was mined, way more than 1.9!

  2. daily sweeps were set up which converted btc to usd, and transactions totaled $3,602.21 (just sold the remaining btc to get a total)

so first the bad news, this is way more shady than i originally thought, and as the person who is ultimately responsible for everything it’s 100% my fault

now the good news, as of the client update released in the last hour, all the btc stuff is out which should solve the gpu and av warnings, and in a blatant attempt to buy back your love (and less likely your trust), i’m going to do the following:

  1. 100% of the funds are going into the s14 prize pot, so at the very least your melted gpus contributed to a good cause

  2. every user who was premium this month will get a free one month premium code which they can use whenever and for whomever they like, and you’ll find the code under manage accounts -> premium codes

once again, our bad, thanks for keeping us honest