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08-03-2016, 09:42 AM
Prominent Bitcoin exchange hacked wiping $65 million from wallets
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Prominent Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was hacked Wednesday, leading to a rumoured loss of bitcoin worth up to $65 million.
The Hong Kong company halted trading on its website, where a **tice states: "Today we discovered a security breach that requires us to halt all trading on Bitfinex, as well as halt all digital token deposits to and withdrawals from Bitfinex."
SEE ALSO: $22 million worth of Bitcoin sold in Australian-first auction (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/bitcoin-auction-australia/)
Its website confirms that some of its users lost bitcoin, but did **t state how many were lost or which users were affected.
**netheless, a Reddit user named "zanetackett" an**unced the loss on the Bitcoin community forum, and stated that 119,756 bitcoin were lost. The user's identity is unverified, but there is a Zane Tackett at Bitfinex who joined the company in mid-2015 as director of community and product development. He had come over (http://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-international-manager-competitor-bitfinex/) from Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin, where Tackett was the internal operations manager. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/bitfinex-hacked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Prominent Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was hacked Wednesday, leading to a rumoured loss of bitcoin worth up to $65 million.
The Hong Kong company halted trading on its website, where a **tice states: "Today we discovered a security breach that requires us to halt all trading on Bitfinex, as well as halt all digital token deposits to and withdrawals from Bitfinex."
SEE ALSO: $22 million worth of Bitcoin sold in Australian-first auction (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/bitcoin-auction-australia/)
Its website confirms that some of its users lost bitcoin, but did **t state how many were lost or which users were affected.
**netheless, a Reddit user named "zanetackett" an**unced the loss on the Bitcoin community forum, and stated that 119,756 bitcoin were lost. The user's identity is unverified, but there is a Zane Tackett at Bitfinex who joined the company in mid-2015 as director of community and product development. He had come over (http://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-international-manager-competitor-bitfinex/) from Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin, where Tackett was the internal operations manager. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/bitfinex-hacked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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