CoinHive Hacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
Return To ArticleReportedly an unknown hacker managed to hijack Coinhive’s CloudFlare account that allowed him/her to modify its DNS servers and replace Coinhive’s official JavaScript code embedded into thousands of websites with a malicious version.
Apparently, hacker reused an old password to access Coinhive’s CloudFlare account that was leaked in the Kickstarter data breach in 2014. As a result, thousands of sites using coinhive script were tricked for at least six hours into loading a modified code that mined Monero cryptocurrency for the hacker rather than the actual site owners.
