Nicehash has been hacked - 4736 BTC or 62 million USD stolen.steemCreated with Sketch.

in #bitcoin7 years ago (edited)

Nicehash has been silent for the last few hours but the growing suspicion that something was awfully wrong is now confirmed.

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Miners have traced the money and presently all the lost BTC is now moved to cold storage by the hackers and out of reach of Nicehash admins

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

Dedicated thread on /r/bitcoin

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7i0u82/nicehash_was_hacked_looks_like_60m_stolen/

and on /r/nicehash

https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0ug8/nicehash_hackedofficial/

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Sounds terrible. You would think websites like this would have better security.

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