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Bithumb Suffers Losses Of $30million To Hackers
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Bithumb Suffers Losses Of $30million To Hackers

The second largest Korean exchange Bithumb has just got hacked and lost $30,000,000 in cryptocurrency value have been stolen. Bithumb made the official announcement via twitter in which they said all of the coins are being transferred to a cold wallet:

The $30 million worth of cryptocurrencies stolen comes on the heels of CoinRail being hacked just a few weeks ago. On June 19, 2018 at 6PM when they announced the hack had taken place, they immediately suspended all deposits in the short term.

Of course we had to search twitter and find out what the crypto critics and community had to say. We start off with Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee when he said:

There are some reports that say they lost upwards of 35 billion won (or close to 32 million USD) after the hacking attack dust settled which does highlight the vulnerabilities of leaving your coins and tokens on exchanges when not actively trading them.

Now we are wondering what type of effect this will have on the market caps and prices of the coins. Right now we have already saw a small dip as the price currently sits around $6,600 as the announcement about the Bithumb cryptocurrency hack was just made nearly 30-40 minutes ago upon writing.

We will say that it is amazing to see Bithumb take responsibility about this hack and says they will cover all the users cryptocurrency funds stolen and reimburse them. Great move for quick damage control on a not so small hack worth $30,000,000 at the least.

We will have another full story review of the Bithumb exchange hack as more details are revealed in the coming hours and days.

coinmag

Editor-in-Chief @Coindaily_co and Bitcoin enthusiast

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