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Published on July 18, 2024 05:52 GMT+00:00edited on July 18, 2024 05:54 GMT+00:00

Multiple users who claim to be Mt. Gox creditors have posted on an insolvency subreddit, stating that they have noticed several unauthorized login attempts on their Mt. Gox accounts by unknown hackers in the last 24 hours.

Users claimed that the actors may be using brute-force techniques and added that their two-factor authentication likely thwarted the intruders from accessing their accounts. Others suggested the incidents might be due to some glitch in the system.

A brute force attack involves hackers attempting to access user accounts or systems by systematically testing numerous passwords or keys until they discover the correct one. 

“Just received 15 notifications for account log in … Is Mt. Gox under attack?” Redditor ovkovk wrote in a post. Dozens of comments and other user