Hackers have stolen $400k Crypto Currency from BlackWallet
Hello my dear crypto enthusiasts,
Recently 2 days ago on Saturday, 13th January 2018, The group of hackers from the unknown location hijacked one of the famous crypto wallet sever which holds the Black wallet.
BlackWallet is a virtual crypto wallet that holds the 8th largest crypto currency called Stellar Lumens. It is said that more than 669,920 wallet accounts are hacked and all the crypto in them got stolen.
Blackwallet founders are already mentioned about these attacks in their blog already and warned users not to login into the wallet. But most of the users are logged in and then lost their crypto's.
Hackers have moved the money to bittrex wallet where they can exchange the money with other trending crypto currencies and to hide the tracks.
Their development team mentioned that they are contacting the server provider and trying to get the information about the hacker.
Stellar Lumens
Stellar Lumens is invented to support the many developing countries in the world. As the word Lumen says, they wanted to empower the poor and developing countries irrespective of the continent.
According to the coinmarket cap there are more than $11Billions Stellar Lumens are in the circulation. And it is the 8th largest crypto currency in the world.
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Loosing crypto is the worst thing ever, a hardware wallet with HD addressing helps for sure.
If you have crypto worth more than 200usd, it makes sense to buy one for sure
True. But I think they refund the lost crypto back to the users soon.
Mehn this hackers case is just a serious case,one will work and invest and hackers will just ateal it on a blink of an eye ,they are worst than robbers using gun
True, losing big investments in the hands of hackers is really heart breaking. It is like losing our time and blood.
Seriously you just be like ,let them just kill you
We don't want another MtGox like hack . We need hackproof decentralize exchanges !
Actually this wallet was works on top of the block chain technology itself. But still this happened.
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