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Title: [2016-05-15]Gatecoin Issues a Statement on Recent Security Breach
Post by: Blawpaw on May 15, 2016, 03:11:17 PM
Gatecoin Issues a Statement on Recent Security Breach

Gatecoin, the Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange has issued an official statement regarding the recent security breach. The breach resulted in the digital currency exchange losing about 15 percent of its crypto-asset holdings, states Aurelien Menant, the CEO of Gatecoin. The exchange’s security was compromised on May 13, followed by a server malfunction the previous day. As a result of the breach, the platform has reportedly lost about $ 2 million in crypto assets constituting 185,000 ether and 250 bitcoins respectively...

read more (http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/05/15/gatecoin-hack-ceo-statement/)