Everything points to this person being a hacker:
Account 402402 (Banana Gold)
History Page 1 of 1
(GMT) Type Batch e-metal Weight
(troy oz.) To/From
Account Entered
Amount Rate
per oz.
3/29/02
01:01 Payment Received 5793706 Gold +0.000033
496303 0.01 USD 303.20
From: Martins Merchant Reference #: gfhfgh fghfgh
REMOTE_HOST
REMOTE_ADDR 63.240.230.5
&city=boca raton&state=fl&zip=33434&country=USA&phone-number=561-323-3253
(obviously, that city/state/phone could be bogus .. no street address given)
The hacker was aiming to "buy" this book .. go figure
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312278586
I suggest that e-gold should monitor the account # 496303 .
This poor hacker has been knocking himself out on Banana and, indeed,
literally every other site I am aware of that has SCIs or robots on
it.
I suspect it could be the same moron that was annoying Eric;
In fact, this egn appears in the list Jim Davidson sent out about his troubles.
It could well be the same person who Graham Kelly etc reported
endlessly trying to ingratiate their PCs with trojans.
The hacker's already cost me $thousands to have our security blokes
quadruple-check all our own sites. (I'll sue for this, and win of
course, once the hacker is discovered; and of course, in time, he
will be.)
Read -- you have to understand this is a SERIOUS HACKER (you're
talking Grand Theft) who has OUTSTANDING TECHNIQUES and SERIOUS
TECHNOLOGY.
The hacker uses CLEVER AND SOPHISTICATED methodology to obfuscate,
just like in a spy movie, or exactly like in a hacker book.
For example you may say "why hack banana, you can hardly have the
book delivered" It's dumb. In fact, all of the above from IP to egn
may be a ploy -- obviously, a hack on Banana would be noticed
immediately, so all the info above could just be a deliberate false
trail to waste the time of those investigating.
This is *not* just some bumbling idiot. It's a hacker or group out to
actually *do crime* carefully.
egold and GoldMoney have to SERIOUSLY look into their security right now.
All market makers that handle big volumes of gold have to SERIOUSLY
think about security.
You'll never know how bad it feels to be hacked until it happens to
you. Ask someone who's been hacked and lost $.
Hope it helps, JP
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