Coin Hive Hacked

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Coin Hive hacked via old password to move manic miners' Monero into miscreants' pockets
Credential leaked from Kickstarter hack used to hijack Cloudflare DNS

Monero miner maker Coin Hive was hacked so that websites using its code inadvertently redirected their generated cryptocurrency to miscreants – after the outfit forgot to change an old password.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/24/coin_hive_hacked_password_reuse/
 
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