For nearly a week now, everyone assumed HashOcean had disappeared all of a sudden. But the support team’s Facebook page seems to tell a different story. They claim a hacker collective by the name of “Prabl0Dynamic HK” hacked the site. The domain is still down, and the company has started refunding investments from June 26 onwards.
What Is Going On At HashOcean?
It’s hard to believe HashOcean was hacked, in fairness. The cloud mining platform has never shown any proof of their mining capacities, yet somehow paid out users for over ten months. Blaming their disappearance on a hacking attempt is rather strange, but not entirely impossible either. Their Facebook page mentions how they have a database backup from June 25th, which is the day on which their site started slowing down.
The team is still working on restoring access to the website, although they have no ETA as to when this will happen. Several fake websites have popped in the meantime, all claiming to be the new HashOcean. One thing that may put some people’s mind at ease is how all investments should be safe as there are no reports of funds being stolen during this attack.
What is interesting is how several of their customers had started to ask for a refund. All investments made on May 26 may end up being lost, although the team is allegedly working on refunding customers for that day. However, there are a lot of new users who had not set up a withdrawal address yet, so they may need to get in touch with customer support.
This brings us to another issue, as getting in touch with HashOcean will be very difficult right now. Support tickets and phone calls are out of the question. Facebook Messenger may be the most reliable way to get in touch with the company, although it may take a while before one gets a reply.
All of this sounds very legitimate, but that does not make HashOcean less of a Ponzi Scheme all of a sudden. The company still controls all customers’ funds, and they can take a reprieve of days or weeks until access is restored. The big question is whether or not they will pay out users for the lost days of mining, and if so, where that money will come from.
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you mean June 26, not may 26 or?
What worthless idiot wrote this waste of space? That facebook page is not really HashOcean, Its some scumbag scammer trying to get victims to send bitcoins. They are not coming back. All money is lost forever. Deal with it. If you were stupid enough to put all of your money in their scam, you got exactly what was coming to you
Please check your wallet, we already send from refunds. We use an automatic process for this refunds, we can not do this manually. Our backup from 25th, it seems that is incomplete. Some transactions are not there. Our automatic system needs your latest transaction address. We cant trigger manually the process, there is only one way. If you still didn’t receive any money until now, it may be because we do not have your address. Please make a transaction on our address for verification. When you make this transaction, our system will be searching for your latest transactions and your money will be refunded to your address. Our system register your bitcoin adress only if you buy at least 20 KH/s, you know that already. So we talk here about between 0.08-.0.09 BTC. Take care, the address that you are going to use on this transaction, will receive your refund, so check your wallet after transaction. This process can take up to 10 minutes.
Send your transaction to: 1KtA4ucXig6poy7YQGLjk1FxJe5fJRQjJs
After your transaction is completed, the system will automatically refund your history of investments. You will get only refunds, not your earnings.
This is not a scam, we dont need your passwords and your money, we need to confirm your bitcoin adress so we can find what transactions you had in the past. We are sorry that this is the only way to do it. Right now, we continue to send some refunds. We already did almost 5000 refunds, this will take a while until everybody will get them, but please be patient.
Team HashOcean 🙂
Liars…non stop liars looking to suck their victims dry.
This is the next Scam.
The FB post sounds legitimate. But I still don’t believe it. They could prove that they are the right hashocean guys with sending an email to all their members stating their June 25th khz hashing power. Only hashocean knows that username, email and khz. As they seem to have access to the DB, writing a script that does this action would take less than 3 hours.
I have reported them in the meantime to the fbi via IC3. I hope AWS, Facebook, Youtube, Enom have logs to hunt them down, freeze funds and grill them in jail. They can get very easily out of this if they communicate via official email channels with us.
Dear miners,
We have updated with a new wallet : 1EemfoyzdD441pxrHTW2qSgGYRN4R5Kxub
Please send exactly 0.01573913 BTC from your bitcoin address selected to payout on your account for proof.
Please keep calm. We work day and night for solve the problem and refund everyone.
HashOcean Team
© HashOcean, Inc.
Good thinking about the FBI report. I will file one myself right now!
LOL… you guys are so funny. Please, send 0.008 – 0.009 BTC to 1PgiHaMB6BtVQAobCgdWUTeVAhZ8iD9SLk to avoid laughing at you all. Being fooled twice is something serious, people.
Why is such SCAM bullshit not moderated here. It is so obvious that these follow-up scammers try to exploit victims. I think we should report the follow-up scammers to the FBI too.
I lost my Hollife income with hashoceas, please help me. I beg to u sir please suport my family . My BTC ADD. 17UAGK7JarUPwj29rN6uAeRBPBoo7HTqRC
Thanks sir
t my Hole life income with hashoceas, please help me. I beg to u sir please suport my family . My BTC ADD. 17UAGK7JarUPwj29rN6uAeRBPBoo7HTqRC
#hashocean Would like to setup a team to investigate the SCAM. Who is willing to help investigate. reply on twitter @ho_investigate or email ho.investigate@gmail.com
well, this is so embarrassing.
My friend asked me to join HO and guarantee that HO will always paying.
Now he is gone and dunno what should I do, I lost around USD300 which might some people think that is small amount. but for me that amount is everything and I’m so frustrated with my life now.
Please support me,
15zDS7gskPMfTodxqPogESwwxKqVNtkvcT
I’m very appreciate every amount. God Bless Us All
LOL, hacked uh? How convenient for a cloud mining ponzi which is mining outside of BTC’s profitability…
You should have googled them, asking for handouts is not an option.
You “lost” the database? HAHA bullshit….
I am amazed of how many people is begging online and blaming Hashocean! here is the list
The start with I lose everything in H.S.
My sister, wife, mother need an operation.
I need an operation.
I am too poor I can no feed my family of 10 (I will recommend the use of condoms).
I am disable
People please stop begging online, if you have internet access and a device that you a can connect to the internet, you are not that poor.
The worst part of this HO. problem is damaging other legit business, cause people will not trust that easy.
thats sound awsome but you should report to cia since it involve in international crime
Unfortunatelly HashOcean will close definivelly and all our mining system is for sale now.Our mining system and webpage got irreversibly damaged.
Refund:
We will refund you on bitcoin adress afferent. Please send exactly 0.01573913 BTC to 1BpZdDmju3ByR9fYGfguEDappZZ57TgQ6x from your bitcoin adress selected to payout on your account for proof.
Please follow the steps and keep calm.
We uppload QR code for refund.
Thank you,
HashOcean Team
The best part of this whole HO thing is that in the future everybody will remember this with a huge laugh. People will say “do you remember how easily people in the past got fooled by other fools?”
My God what do I do? I borrowed and 5 biticoin not afford to pay my creditors, due to the breakdown of Hashocean, can anyone help me with donations in my wallet?
16PvneoquDjXr8dkuWQmTR3UaJfWCRd53k
I’m desperate every 0,01btc can help me
Thanks for help
Dear members/miners,
as you may have noticed our domain has been hacked and sold, this was beyond our control and despite our teams very best efforts we have been unable to recover it.
Our official Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts have also been hacked and closed.
We have had to take the unprecedented step now to admit defeat, the hackers have won and Hashocean is no more.
Our domain and our Data Centres were not directly linked but to be sure our members investments were protected we have been forced to cease all mining operations with immediate effect and transfer all remaining BTC (Approx $3,500,000) to a new secure wallet as we can’t be 100% sure the hackers won’t be able to get access to your investments eventually.
We have been able to recover a partial backup containing our final full days transactions/payouts along with our customer database and wish to refund as many of our customers as possible but we fear this might not be possible as we suspect the hacker/hackers may of been clients who accessed our domain via fake customer accounts they had setup so the only way we can resolve the matter is as follows:
(Customers will be refunded strictly on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED basis, when the secured funds are gone, they are gone) .
Please carefully take note of the EXACT amount of the last confirmed BTC payment you received from us dated 26th June 2016. Please send this EXACT amount of BTC to the below secure wallet address – please include with the payment notes your registered email address for Hashocean (DO NOT SEND ACCOUNT PASSWORD)
1MwsLEqVYV6fjcpSonnbq94vaTeXPZzyxb
We will cross reference your payment and email address with our backup records and as long as they match we will then refund that payment along with your investment back to your accounts registered wallet.(We estimate the process to take no longer than 72Hrs from receipt of your payment to processing of refund)
Please note we will only be refunding the funds you invested plus any re-invested funds, we will not be refunding any sign-up/referral/bonus funds at this time – we think this is the fairest approach so as to refund as many of our loyal investors as possible, if after this process is complete there are any funds remaining we will then start the process of refunding any referral/bonus funds, again on a first come, first served basis – watch this page for updates. Finally please be extra careful with your account details, we have been informed of a number of fake websites etc. that have been set up using our name and tricking people into disclosing their wallet details, email address and passwords –
PLEASE do not send any of your personal details to anyone ever by unsecured methods such as email or website.
Yours,
Team Hashocean
help me please I have invested with HashOcean more than 500$, now I need it to pay the bank. Pls help send to my address: 1JqgszapG4hCZaY5vwemPHomVBpLgx8p1Q
Dear members/miners,
as you may have noticed our domain has been hacked and sold, this was beyond our control and despite our teams very best efforts we have been unable to recover it.
Our official Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts have also been hacked and closed.
We have had to take the unprecedented step now to admit defeat, the hackers have won and Hashocean is no more.
Our domain and our Data Centres were not directly linked but to be sure our members investments were protected we have been forced to cease all mining operations with immediate effect and transfer all remaining BTC (Approx $3,500,000) to a new secure wallet as we can’t be 100% sure the hackers won’t be able to get access to your investments eventually.
We have been able to recover a partial backup containing our final full days transactions/payouts along with our customer database and wish to refund as many of our customers as possible but we fear this might not be possible as we suspect the hacker/hackers may of been clients who accessed our domain via fake customer accounts they had setup so the only way we can resolve the matter is as follows:
(Customers will be refunded strictly on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED basis, when the secured funds are gone, they are gone) .
Please carefully take note of the EXACT amount of the last confirmed BTC payment you received from us dated 26th June 2016. Please send this EXACT amount of BTC to the below secure wallet address – please include with the payment notes your registered email address for Hashocean (DO NOT SEND ACCOUNT PASSWORD)
1MwsLEqVYV6fjcpSonnbq94vaTeXPZzyxb
We will cross reference your payment and email address with our backup records and as long as they match we will then refund that payment along with your investment back to your accounts registered wallet.(We estimate the process to take no longer than 72Hrs from receipt of your payment to processing of refund)
Please note we will only be refunding the funds you invested plus any re-invested funds, we will not be refunding any sign-up/referral/bonus funds at this time – we think this is the fairest approach so as to refund as many of our loyal investors as possible, if after this process is complete there are any funds remaining we will then start the process of refunding any referral/bonus funds, again on a first come, first served basis – watch this page for updates. Finally please be extra careful with your account details, we have been informed of a number of fake websites etc. that have been set up using our name and tricking people into disclosing their wallet details, email address and passwords –
PLEASE do not send any of your personal details to anyone ever by unsecured methods such as email or website.
Yours,
Team Hashocean
Dear members/miners,
as you may have noticed our domain has been hacked and sold, this was beyond our control and despite our teams very best efforts we have been unable to recover it.
Our official Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts have also been hacked and closed.
We have had to take the unprecedented step now to admit defeat, the hackers have won and Hashocean is no more.
Our domain and our Data Centres were not directly linked but to be sure our members investments were protected we have been forced to cease all mining operations with immediate effect and transfer all remaining BTC (Approx $3,500,000) to a new secure wallet as we can’t be 100% sure the hackers won’t be able to get access to your investments eventually.
We have been able to recover a partial backup containing our final full days transactions/payouts along with our customer database and wish to refund as many of our customers as possible but we fear this might not be possible as we suspect the hacker/hackers may of been clients who accessed our domain via fake customer accounts they had setup so the only way we can resolve the matter is as follows:
(Customers will be refunded strictly on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED basis, when the secured funds are gone, they are gone) .
Please carefully take note of the EXACT amount of the last confirmed BTC payment you received from us dated 26th June 2016. Please send this EXACT amount of BTC to the below secure wallet address – please include with the payment notes your registered email address for Hashocean (DO NOT SEND ACCOUNT PASSWORD)
169KS6NeKExr6N7wv7LFye5vdWo55Gu6b2
We will cross reference your payment and email address with our backup records and as long as they match we will then refund that payment along with your investment back to your accounts registered wallet.(We estimate the process to take no longer than 72Hrs from receipt of your payment to processing of refund)
Please note we will only be refunding the funds you invested plus any re-invested funds, we will not be refunding any sign-up/referral/bonus funds at this time – we think this is the fairest approach so as to refund as many of our loyal investors as possible, if after this process is complete there are any funds remaining we will then start the process of refunding any referral/bonus funds, again on a first come, first served basis – watch this page for updates. Finally please be extra careful with your account details, we have been informed of a number of fake websites etc. that have been set up using our name and tricking people into disclosing their wallet details, email address and passwords –
PLEASE do not send any of your personal details to anyone ever by unsecured methods such as email or website.
Yours,
Team Hashocean
ROFl you can’t help stupid.
As i said earlier, you can’t help stupid.
Are people actually stupid enough to sall for this stupidity?
PLEASE PLEASE do the world a favor and NEVER reproduce.
And spellcheck fails for the scammer once again.
Ahhh that’s sad you pathetic loser lol.
Ahhh what a sad story. Maybe if you weren’t an idiot…
Actually the new scam is bitsrapid. These people have nothing to do with hashocean. Why would someone involved in such a huge theft try to nickle and dime people like above?
help me please I have invested with HashOcean . Pls help send to
my address:
17juPC5NJgLepNaqGTt6kCz5RwMF2j4WnF
If you have a gun use it, if you don’t have a gun ,use a window if you live above 4th floor, if you don’t you can find a tree and hang yourself ,if you need more help contact me I know so many ways to escape from your creditors 😉
That sounds suspicious. If anything users should want to get their money out of he company and into their own wallets,not pay more into a “secure” wallet when the company already lost the first one
he went full retard
really GTF
arseholes do you really think anyone will fall for this shit,
Hash Ocean Refund
the real refund address is 18ErbCe9JyhF2T7dup3nvAskmH1DLSL6Pr
now, be careful !!!
with transaction you specify the date and the amount of your total deposit
for example:
date of joining 4/23/2016
sum of all deposit 12BTC
the amount to send on 18ErbCe9JyhF2T7dup3nvAskmH1DLSL6Pr
is 0.01423612 BTC
explanation 0BTC, 01BTC cent, 4236 is the date 4/23/2016, 12is the sum of BTC deposit.
if you deposit more the 99BTC just put 99 at the end, they will see the total amount of deposit, but
if you deposit 1btc and put 99 at the end… do not do that.
in 12-24 hours, you will be refunded, they need time to find you among over 600.000 deposit and users
Now we will DDOS you 4 real, or just ordera a green light on you.
PS.
Anon.