Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers

Re:Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using ... by rebuilder on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:45PM (#13593125)

That's the WTF for me here. I don't store anything valuable on the Windows 8 PC I run at home, but when I set it up, I remember feeling quite uneasy about the way the Microsoft account and the local user login apparently are one and the same. I assumed that surely it's just convenience and gaining access to the MS account isn't sufficient to give access to my PC - that would be insane, right?

Is this being reported correctly? This sounds completely nuts.

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Re:Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using ... by chillwaves on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:49PM (#13593179)

You can create a local account independent of the MS network, they just make that option partially obscured.

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Re:Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using ... by rebuilder on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:59PM (#13593280)

Changed my user account to local just now. Good thing I always assumed this computer is a sieve. I still have a hard time believing every single modern Windows OS is essentially intentionally backdoored. That's just completely, incredibly unacceptable.

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Re:Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using ... by striking on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:29PM (#13595450)

"Ah, yes, I remember when I used to actually own my computer..."

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