As of approximately 4:00PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on Friday, September 7th the SmartCash tipbots, telegram bridge bot, and original RPC explorer became inaccessible.
The former SmartCash developer managing those services, Markus (msg768), deactivated the servers and demanded a ransom payment of 5,000,000 SMART ($128,505 USD equivalent) in order to return these services to an operational state and hand over the code and password to the wallet, which was not paid.
The SmartCash team is committed to returning full access to tipbots and associated balances as soon as possible. At this time we recommend you do not send any further SMART to your former tipbot addresses or use the SmartCash TipBot on Twitter and all other SmartCash tipbots until further notice.
The password to the tipbot wallet was left in the server logs allowing the community balances to be secured, however Markus had corrupted the filesystems to attempt to keep SmartCash from restoring data. An initial analysis shows that approximately 70,000 ($1,800 USD equivalent ) of the total 100,000 SMART tipbot balance has already been stolen by Markus, corresponding to a number of tips that were sent on Twitter but were left unclaimed. The remaining 30,000 SMART ($771 USD equivalent) have been moved to new addresses to prevent Markus from stealing the remaining amounts. The tipbot code has been forked on GitHub and tipbots will be online again once a full security audit has been completed.
Markus’ decision to steal community funds and demand a ransom payment was unethical, unprofessional, and deceptive. It is standard practice in the SmartCash Development Hive to share private code repositories with at least two other team members. When Markus had been asked to do this over the last several weeks he had become increasingly evasive, making excuses why he could not do so. At this time, all SmartCash Developers have confirmed to be following the code sharing and shared access requirements that were set to ensure decentralization.
SmartCash will provide updates when the updated tipbot services are online again. We are committed to improving them with better stability, enhanced security, and new integrations and features. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to restore services.
About SmartCash:
SmartCash is an easy to use, fast, and secure cryptocurrency that supports everyday use such as business payments and daily transactions. SmartCash has a unique decentralized governance system and technologies such as SmartNodes, InstantPay locked transactions in about a second, send by SMS and email, a project treasury with private key voting, SmartMining security, SmartCard, and it's Point of Sale app called SmartPay. SmartCash is pushing the limits of blockchain technology with tools that support entrepreneurship and innovation. Intended for use worldwide, SmartCash is available at ATMs, the first cryptocurrency shop in Europe, The House of Nakamoto, local exchanges and is especially popular in South America and Africa. In Brazil, 85% of retailers accept SmartCash with the SmartBand and it will be available at an additional 13,000 Caixa locations soon.
Join the SmartCash Community:
https://twitter.com/scashofficial
http://discord.smartcash.cc/
https://t.me/smartcashchat
https://www.youtube.com/SmartCashDotCC
Learn more at:
https://smartcash.cc
https://card.smartcash.cc
https://business.smartcash.cc
Get Your SmartCash Wallet:
Web Wallet: https://wallet.smartcash.cc
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PC/Mac: https://smartcash.cc/wallets/
Source (post shared with permission): https://smartcash.cc/important-security-update-for-the-smartcash-tipbots/
This sucks, this is why one should never leave huge amount on anything besides one's own adres!
This is all a bunch of lies. You should do your research. I wasn't the only one who had access to the server. They emptied the wallets themselves and are still calling me a thief. I even donated from my own funds and took the bots back up and many users including this fanatic liar Mark withdrew their funds from the tipbots which came from my own pocket. These guys are mad we're forking away and are trying to discredit me left and right. I have written a few posts explaining my side of the story. Feel free to check them out if you want. PEACE!
Thanks for the comment, I didnt even know this story was about you...
The largest amounts were unclaimed twitter tips to notable figures. Most users kept low amounts. There is a new discord tipbot created that uses on-chain transactions. However, the user balances were wiped by Markus when they deleted data on the server.
A replacement twitter bot is under development now, with additional ones to follow soon.
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