| GNI database compromised |
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| Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:52 |
 Today I received an email from a hacker who was able to hack into the GoldNuggetInvest member database. Appearantly the hacker was also able to hack into the website because he used it to send an email to GNI membership. My guess is that the hacker broke into the website and found the login codes for the database in the website code. Anyway, the hacker send out an email warning us that he found all money transfers in and out from the members but not from any bookmakers. According to the hacker GNI is therefor a scam. He also kindly dropped a note that we could contact him to ask about safe investments. Right.. I have three things to say about this.
You'll have to make up your own mind about GNI but I'm sticking with them and leave my investments unchanged. You can find more information about GNI here: http://www.oppsincome.com/topratedprograms/gni Below you'll find the hackers email and the response GNI posted a little time later. *** Hackers email *** Dear investor GNI, We are a team acting against spreading of various ponzi schemes and other types of financial pyramides in the Internet. Using the vulnerability of mysql we broke the website http://goldnuggetinvest.com. Our experts were surprized when they saw that there was no single incoming payment from bookmakers to the accounts owned by the owners of this website. The payment to investors are made exclusively from the new deposits. It's a simplest type of ponzi scheme. We recommend you to withdraw your money to a safer place. This website will be closed in the near future, you have 48 hours to withdraw your money at the most. If the owners of the website don't close it, it will be done by us. If you want to thank us for this information and to get information about where to invest money safely, please e-mail your e-mails to the following addresses: <hackers_email_removed> We hope you will have luck and you return your money *** GNI Response *** Dear, You may have received a malicious spam email in the last couple of hours, claiming to be from a team acting against spreading of various Ponzi schemes. They state that they used the vulnerability of mysql and broke into our database. They are also reporting that they haven't found any trading activity with our script - what is by the way true, since the script is nothing more than a front end for our members and us as well, to manage and calculate your funds . Furthermore they are warning that our website will be closed in the near future, if not by us, by the senders group. And of course the obvious bla bla that you should withdraw you funds with us - and surprise surprise, they added three email addresses you may contact to receive information where to invest you money safely :) This is the really important fact of this SPAM email - thats what it is! It tells us that the only intention of the sender is to disturb our operation and to grab you intention to another investment program, which is for sure a PONZI scheme, since no serious entity is using the means of SPAM to get your intention. GNI is operating for almost three years, is as you know a legally registered corporation and has proven over the time again and again that we are a serious and reliable second income opportunity. There is absolutely no need to panic and nothing and NOBODY will shut us down, not as long as I am in charge of this operation. Since we went public last year we have been attacked, threatened and blackmailed on a weekly base. The last email we've received last Friday and the blackmailer tried to extort $20,000 from us. Most probably the email you have received is a result of this extortioner. This is the downside of such an operation! Our only aim is and was to generate a second income for you, our trusted members and thus offering us an business opportunity to support our families as well. As you all know, we are working hard to achieve this goal and have always sorted out any obstacles along the way. And so we will do again - today as well as tomorrow! We are currently investigating how this SPAMMER got access to our database and assure you that we will take all necessary steps to protect our members privacy and integrity, what unfortunately is not a simple task, in times where even government databases get compromised. We can however confirm that the database has not been altered. I don't want to hide the fact that quite some of our esteemed members panicked and requested a withdrawal of their principal, as a result of this SPAM email, what is understandable, since you don't know what is going on. We have decided to sent all withdrawal requests back to our members account balances, giving you the opportunity to reconsider if you like to stay with us - or not, now where I got the chance to address this issue. If you still decide to withdraw your principle, please request it again and note that it might take up to 7 days to process principal withdrawal requests, depending on the availability of funds in our payment processor accounts. This is according to our TOS. We will process withdrawals again in the evening hours today (GMT timezone). Finally let me express my warmest gratefulness to those member who expressed their support of GNI and are believing in our project. I have received many encouraging emails from trusted members. THANK YOU ALL! With best regards, Robert and TEAM |
