The investigation into the hacking NiceHash. There are new details

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NiceHash, along with law enforcement US, EU and LIFARS are still investigating the break-in site, which happened on 6 December 2017. Then the hackers stole . Recently, they have been able to determine the origin of the hacking, so the company has shared new details about the incident .

At the moment there is information that the attacker got access to the internal system NiceHash using letters with built-in phishing code. This allowed him to move cryptocurrency directly inside the data center of the company. To connect used stolen VPN accounts.

During a digital forensic analysis of hacking was obtained indicators of compromise, that by the technique, tactic and procedure (TTP) revealed a face, which the NSA already has the information. We are talking about the party is known .

Director General of the Agency Lifars Ondrej Chairs told how a burglar technically flawless compromised system NiceHash and with enviable precision turned received . The attack was focused and well planned, and hackers when it acted quickly and showed a very high skill level.

Source: NiceHash

Recall from the February 2018 NiceHash systematically conducts a campaign to affected users. As of today, employees are compensated for already 69 percent from the previous balances on the custom purses. In this first of October NiceHash has paid only 2 per cent loss instead of the planned 5. The decision is explained by the lack of money.

Initially, the company did not disclose details of the compensation program, because of what users expected to receive the funds on January 31, 2018. In addition, immediately after breaking from the company . More data to search for .

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