Vlog 294: Utopian.io hack + Users are diversifying to different apps to upvote and consume content.
Yesterday the servers of Utopian.io were attacked.
Besides loss of data also SteemConnect Tokens were leaked.
The hack was therefor quickly picked up by Steemians all over when their accounts started to randomly upvote and downvote posts.
You can read all about the attack here. It's the official statement by Utopian.io.
From the post:
The attack started yesterday. It was initially identified as a service disruption only, but it appears that wasn’t the case.
Our main production server was completely erased.
Our CDN, which contained files and backups, was erased .
SteemConnect Tokens were leaked from our DB and today used to bulk downvote/upvote random posts.
NO WALLETS OR KEYS WERE COMPROMISED OR WERE EVER IN DANGER OF BEING COMPROMISED DURING THE ATTACK.
To check if you are affected you can check your upvote/down behaviour here:
www.steemd.com/@username
Steepshot push notifications.
I have been using the app Steepshot for a while. They recently build in these push notifications.
Besides giving a nice interactive feeling it also tells me users are diversifying to different apps to upvote and consume content.
I got around 20 upvotes through the app Steepshot (and not steemit.com) on one of my posts.
I think that's cool and is exactly the type of thing (Users using different apps) I would like to see happen when this blockchain grows.
I talk about it more in my vlog.
I am a witness with our developer group @blockbrothers for the Steem blockchain. If you want to support us I would appreciate your vote here.
We build Steemify a notification app for your Steemit account for iOS.
Get it Here:
▶️ DTube
▶️ IPFS
Greetings, great exyle
I do not know what you think about it. I think that with this question that happened in utopian, for those who have sp invested in the site, the best thing to be done is to modify the password. Even if it's just to make the person's mind more comfortable, it's good to have it done.
After that, I think it's not good to put a password anywhere other than steemit.com. I will not post more on other sites that can connect to steemit, such as b .....
It may be a radical attitude, but it's better this radicalism than losing money invested in here.
Thanks for the post and good morning!
I quite agree with you, we also are very careful to connect to any third party platform. Thanks for sharing
Hope Utopian.io will take appropriate actions so that it won't repeat again.. Glad to know that no private data was leaked and wallet was not at risk at any point. Steepshot push notification will come really handy....
Honestly, I had no idea about all the different apps available on the Steem blockchain! After my exams are done I'll surely explore some of them and write some articles about them!
Good morning!
Well as you probably know, I've been contributing, and spent some time moderating over at utopian-io and so clearly want them to be back up and running as soon as possible.
This is really unfortunate for them, but as with the rapid growth and speed that they put their virtual team together, it's obviously pretty hard to build that team full of 100% trustworthy types.
As in so many businesses these days, your IT guys have access, by way of the role, to data that as a CEO you would rather they didn't have - it's just impossible not to allow them access. I wrote about the incident yesterday based on my experience over the years.
I feel sorry for @elear and the team, and hope they come back stronger.
Have a good day man, looks like a nice one over there :)
For sure! It's such a great project and idea.
Yeah definitely. If they keep the support of Steem inc, which looks to be the case then they will be back. And are actually due to start accepting contributions from the standard condensers again soon.
Cheers!
Hey Asher ✌ Nice to see you here!
Hi Jill, thanks and you too! :D
sad to hear that the hack was an inside job
Hope that utopian-io could recover the problem soon. And thanks to you for alart about sudden danger. I have no idea about it. I could know details from your Dlive video. I have android phone. But I don't know why steepshot is not support in it. I tried. May be I have to buy a new phone with IOS :)
Thanks a lot sir, for sharing the most valuable information.
Steepshot should work on Android 100%.
Oh no, I hope this doesn't affect the STEEM price
What can i say I heard the news and I was shocked I first feared if it was a malicious hack, but they I was told no keys were compromised at all, it's totally a relieve I'm glad for your consistent blog, I'm sorry I've been away, how's Bianca? I heard you celebrated an anniversary together?
Bianca is great. Thanks for asking!
thank you for the post @exyle, that is very informative! I see in the images you have an app "steemify". I can't seem to find it on the play store. What's that?
It's only for iOS atm. Android is being developed.
I see, thanks!
Not very prety news for the community, Utopian.io is one of the biggest projects and fear spreads very fast... It´s good to know that no funds were stolen, at least the hack was minimized and it should be easy for them to come back stronger into action.
Usually we learn with our mistakes, but in crypto you don´t have that luck, prevent your mistakes because they can be very expensive.