Cryptopia hacked, the stock exchange reported significant losses. Chithiram the end?
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January has started briskly. A week ago hackers a successful 51 percent attack on the blockchain Classic, which ended in huge losses and damaged reputation of the team. Although the attackers the equivalent of 100 thousand dollars for the Playground Gate.io, the situation is not saved. Now the problem caught up with cryptocurrency exchanges — hacking reported Cryptopia.
theWhat happens to Cryptopia
At the moment the site is not working. If you try to go to the exchange see the following.
Source: Cryptopia
The Inscription says that at the moment Cryptobia is in unscheduled maintenance. Representatives of the team I apologize for the inconvenience and promise to get back on air as soon as possible. According to their statement, the developers are hard at work restoring health. It boils so much that the guys didn't even notice the typo in the last word.
Intuition fails — the worst had happened. The details of the representatives of Cryptopia shared on Twitter.
— Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ)
According to the staff, January 14, the exchange has experienced problems in the security system that led to "substantial losses". As soon as the programmers noticed the flaw, the site was transferred to the maintenance mode.
theis Not working Cryptopia
Immediately thereafter, the staff contacted state agencies, including the New Zealand police and the Department for combating high-tech crime. The latter is already investigating the situation.
Before the end of the relevant action trading platform will be unavailable. The company also promises to notify users about the progress of the situation.
Looks like got "hacked".
Cryptopia used to be very popular at one point but has since then become mostly irrelevant.— WhalePanda (@WhalePanda)
It Seems that this time the hackers got to the big money of the exchange, which is called the "Queen shitkino". And although the same WhalePanda calls it "irrelevant", the volume of trading remains high. By the way, the data on the exchange on CoinMarketCap already are not updated.
Source: CoinMarketCap
UPD: over the past 33 hours with Cryptopia brought at least 20758 ETH. It's the equivalent of 2,657 million dollars.
Source: Etherscan
If the loss really "significant", waiting for the falling of many coins. , , and other major projects are traded on the more popular exchanges, so that their event is unlikely to be affected. Mine called cryptocurrency can , and while discussing the situation and a fun beginning-of-year .
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