Nicehash will pay stolen BTC back! (They say)
For all out there who are (former) #nicehash users I've got great news. The Team sent me an E-Mail today stating that all the funds will be paid back by the end of January.
See for yourselves:
Dear NiceHash customer,
We are reaching out to you as one of our buyers at NiceHash. You will be well aware by now that on Wednesday 6 December, our security system was breached in a sophisticated attack. As a result, our payment system was compromised and the entire contents of the NiceHash bitcoin wallet were stolen – around 4,700 BTC.
Despite the unfortunate event, we are letting you know that our service will be resumed today and your money will be paid back!
Please be aware that when we resume the service, it will be apparent that your wallet has 0 value as a result of the hack, although you will also see your old balance on the new dashboard.
We are happy to announce we have been able to reserve the funds required to restore balances from a group of international investors. Old balances will therefore be restored by January 31, 2018. We need this interim period to ensure all legal paperwork is processed correctly, so please be patient while we do this.
Our entire community is important to us, but as one of our buyers, you are even more so. You have invested with us – not only your money, but your trust as well. As we said immediately following the hack, we would simply not exist without our devoted buyers and miners around the world.
We are truly sorry for any inconvenience that the hack may have caused. We hope you will want to continue to invest your money and your faith in the world’s largest crypto-mining marketplace.
We would like to reiterate our thanks to you and hope that you will be back on the site shortly.
With best wishes!
Andrej Skraba
CMO @ NiceHash
The Nicehash website still states that the service will be resumed until 24:00 CentralEuropeanTime so they got a few hours left to resume the service. Personally I'm very curious if the service will find traction again but the lack of better alternatives does not leave buyers and sellers of hashing power a lot of choice. (There are cloud contracts but these are less dynamic and sellers can try https://minergate.com or programms like http://www.awesomeminer.com but they are a lot more clumsy to use and less attractive at many times for users with little knowledge about the topic)
What do you guys think?
Will you be using nicehash again or did they loose all your trust?
Here a bad screenshot of the mail I got to proove its not something I made up but really had in my inbox:
wow.. havent checked my email. I will crosspost this on my post. Thanks.
The moment I saw the mail I thought this is great news everyone needs to know.
Indeed. On the interview i linked, one guy had 20k on BTC there. Its good that these people get their money back.
OMG 20k is so much money to loose over night. The whole NiceHash affair was the reason i bought a ledger nano s. Just to be on the safe site.
Thx a lot for the edit you made on your post
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