Cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb on Twitter has briefly announced that her platform's withdrawals and deposits have been temporarily suspended.
Bithumb subsequently reported on his site that he had taken this step after an abnormal number of selections were recorded through their monitoring system.
,, We would like to inform you about the circumstances and reasons for this outage, while also informing you that your property is safe. March 29 at 22: 15h (no time zone indicated) we found abnormal cryptocurrency selections through our monitoring system. All cryptocurrencies owned by our company and all our customers' cryptocurrencies are under our control on cold wallets. According to our security manual, we have secured all the cryptocurrencies since the problem was detected and suspended deposits and withdrawals. ”
At the same time, Bithumb has confirmed that he is working with security companies as well as Cyber Police to solve the problem, basically confirming that it was a hacker attack, but which was apparently "inside" by Bithum's staff, which also indicates this. ,, We are constantly monitoring and blocking external hack attempts. However, it was our fault that we focused only on defending the external attack and we did not sufficiently verify the internal staff. ”
At the same time, Bithumb said he was expecting the assistance of the other stock exchanges to return the stolen cryptocurrencies .
Details regarding the amount of stolen cryptocurrencies are yet to be speculated and are not verified. For example, CoinTelegraph quotes Dovey Wan's tweet, claiming that 3 million EOS tokens have disappeared from Bithumb, which is currently about $ 12.5 million.
In June 2018, Bithumb was the victim of a $ 30 million cryptocurrency attack. During the subsequent investigation, Bithumbu returned tokens of about $ 14 million.
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