Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info walks through its DNS hijack hack

Transparency is important in the event of being hacked, and although some companies (like Yahoo) fail miserably when the worst occurs, others now understand how important it is to communicate with their customers in a time of crisis.
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is one such company, with the firm having its domain name server hijacked earlier this week. According to SiliconANGLE’s Bitcoin Weekly:
Users of the Blockchain.info web wallet complained early Wednesday that the website was unavailable. Others, however, discovered that the domain name service for Blockchain.info was sending them to an altogether different website. This is part of an attack known as a ‘DNS hijack,’ in which an attacker spoofs the DNS of a target website and sends visitors to a different locale, often to use to collect passwords and personal information through phishing.
Blockchain.info immediately started making statements on social media to let customers know what was occurring, and have now followed up with a full disclosure of exactly what occurred.

This post was published at Silicon Angle on Oct 13, 2016.