Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen

okanlawonema (35)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago

"Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked, Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen" after seeing this headline on HackerNews, I have just been thinking, trust me you don't want to know know what have been thinking.

https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh1mB4rq

the largest Bitcoin mining marketplace called NiceHash has been hacked, which resulted in 4,700 Bitcoins worth over $57 million (at the time of breach) missing.

the Funniest thing is that the stolen BTC now worth over $74 million—At the time of writing.

NiceHash is a cloud-based crypto-mining marketplace Founded in 2014, they connects people from all over the world to rent out their computing power to other to create new coins.

Users reported that their BTC wallets had been missing(emptied), which was later confirmed by NiceHash them self after its service went offline claiming to be undergoing maintenance.![]
and the website has been down for the past few days...

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