For Writing | 03/08/2016 at 10h13
Bitfinex, one of the largest bitcoins platforms in the world, was forced to suspend its operations using the virtual currency on account of an attack hacker that subtracted $ 65 million in cryptocurrency. The attack resulted in a sharp fall in the value of bitcoins, running through an automatic system in a computer network. The immediate devaluation of virtual currency was about 20% with the possibility of a further sharp decline over the next few days.
hackers stole 119,756 bitcoins and led to the suspension of negotiations, withdrawals and deposits in Hong Kong, where the headquarters of Bitfinex operates. “Today we found a security flaw which forced us to suspend all transactions Bitfinex both deposits as withdrawals,” the company announced late on Tuesday (2). “We know that some of our users had stolen bitcoins. We will review various options to respond to customer losses.”
The price of virtual currency, often volatile, has fallen from US $ 603.06 to US $ 482.82 in less than 24 hours. A slight recovery, which increased the value of the currency to $ 540, was registered on Wednesday (3). This month, however, the value of bitcoin has accumulated a fall of 30%.
Bitfinex also stated that it is “investigating the breach to determine what occurred,” although the investigation details are unknown. Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase Exchange, the attack “is a big hole” and “significant short term.” Nevertheless, he believes in a recovery, as the company “has shown resilience to this type of attack in the past.”
This is not the first attack involving the virtual currency. One of them led to MT. Gox to declare insolvency after € 350 million disappeared from their servers.
Via Bloomberg
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