Glasswerkz private store down. Also, what they said about Nucleus 3 days ago

Wondering what other markets Glasswerkz is on (besides their private market onion site). Or an email address?

Three days ago the GW Nucleus profile said something like "sorry for the order problems recently. Our account was hacked and they changed a bunch of listings to FE. If you placed an FE order let us know and we'll [fix it, give discount, or something]. Our onion market site was also affected and we took it down, but don't change your bookmarks because we still have the domain. It will be back up in a new version soon."

Despite my use of quotation marks, that is not a quote, it is my best recollection of what was posted on their profile page and possibly in a separate PM they sent. Only read it once, didn't save it, but that's what I remember.

It is odd that GW's onion market went down a little before Nucleus, and now it says that it should be back up 12/15 -- much like Nucleus's says it will be up "yesterday". It's a coincidence, but easily chalked up to bad English (the tomorrow/yesterday mistake is common) and typical technical difficulties (GW's people unable to get market up by stated time).

I have no reason to suspect any affiliation between GW and Nucleus. I was a customer of GW before Nuc was around, and I was on Nuc before GW was on Nuc. It's all pretty strange, but I don't think either of them is scamming.

It's plausible that an attacker got into Nuc's system and got login/passwords, then used that to get into GW's server if they used same password as on Nuc. Or, perhaps there is a common vulnerability on all hidden services (remember Agora's crytpic warning?).

Did any other vendor on Nucleus mention they had been hacked? Are any other private markets down?

PS If you are stupid enough to use the same password at multiple markets, and you had a Nucleus account... you know what to do. Having different login names is not enough, you need different passwords.


Comments


[3 Points] stonedcheese420:

People really don't get that should be online yesterday joke?

It's like your parents giving you a job to do when you were a kid and you ask them: 'til when do I have to do it? Dad: 3 hours ago


[1 Points] young_k:

There were quite a few posts by vendors - some even PGP signed - that said they were locked out of their accounts. If you search for nucleus in this sub, or check the last 2-3 pages (24-36hr) you will easily find the posts.


[1 Points] AmazinPride:

Merkovo, Humboldt, others as well