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I just got this thinking but it is just my opinion.
1. Bitfinex is gone so where would past members go?
2. What would be the next trusted exchange site that have a lot of users also?
3. Poloniex was known by a lot of users specially here and even outside. A friend told me about it.
4. Since many will be investing their money here the devil may come.

I hope not but I am starting to doubt also. I dont got proofs it is all just got me thinking. I think we need others to participate to prevent another bitfinex.
Help each other and warn them if ever something fishy is happening.
Are we not selfish enough to do that?

please tell us what exactly happened. and tell us when this has happened.

without more information it sounds like fud.

thanks

edit: just found this. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1501116.0

Hi Davinci,

I'm sorry, but for security reasons, we do not disclose the locations of our infrastructure.


Best regards,

Joshua Anders
Poloniex Support

Hi Davinci,

Since it was a datacenter-wide outage, it would be unlikely that we were the only ones affected.

did poloniex get hack and losing the member fund? i think poloniex staff do not want to give their detail about datahosting, because its so dangerous to share info with someone that they don't know. did you get some unsual experience? can you share with other member so maybe other member can give alternative solution?

Support are not in a position to offer such information - I suppose any information that we could provide to prove such a thing would ultimately then compromise our own security in the process.

We certainly understand your concerns given recent events. There are many details we cannot share publicly for security reasons, but we can say that we keep the majority of our customers' funds in cold storage. We also have sophisticated methods in place that are designed to detect and prevent suspicious withdrawals from hot wallets.

Your greatest risk is an account breach due to your login credentials being stolen through phishing or social engineering. This is why it is so important to have 2FA enabled on your account.

Also critical: the email address the account is registered under needs to be carefully protected as well, including a unique password and 2FA. Ideally, these accounts should be accessed either from a dedicated computer or a computer that is used for as little else as possible. Any sort of remote access software, such as TeamViewer, should be completely removed.

Sorry if I wasn't able to provide you with concrete answers. I would always recommend being vigilant in the world of crypto and a part of that is working our what works best for you with regards to where you leave your funds.

Please let me know if you need anything else though.

Best regards,

Javan Green
Poloniex Support

@DavinciJ15

I totally agree with you, but you never can be 99.9999% safe with exchanges, I too was burned by mtgox and had to take out crap alts out of cryptsy

But them not disclosing data center location is not a red flag, I too would not disclose location for security reasons

But then we what can we be sure of... outside audit yes, but still who guarantee they will not be hacked, this bitfinex has proved exchange still have not learned the mean of secure cold wallet storage!

I am really sorry but we can not share any information regarding our data center / hosting. This would be a terrible breach of security.

I'm afraid that as of yet I will not be able to share any information that would satisfy you.

Question to everyone is there Windows PC based multi wallet Application in existence that I can use to store my coins? 

Question to everyone is there Windows PC based multi wallet Application in existence that I can use to store my coins? 

so do you tink poloniex also will be hacked like bitfinex ?

you can search for applications. if you have money, then i suggest you to buy android phone and then you can download mycelium as your bitcoin wallet. i think its safe to use mycelium and many people have been recommended.

i am not agree to save almost all our money in market exchange, put it into USB wallet or cold storage i think its a good idea.

Poloniex is hosted on Cloudflare servers in Los Angeles, but things like this do happen.  Even Facebook has fallen over a few times and they probably own a whole datacenter to themselves!  There's plenty of whois detail available on the domain HERE (https://whois.domaintools.com/poloniex.com).  Why don't you phone Tristan and ask him what happened  ;)

Registrant Name: domainadmin .
Registrant Organization: Feld Entertainment, Inc.
Registrant Street: 8607 Westwood Center Dr.
Registrant City: Vienna
Registrant State/Province: VA
Registrant Postal Code: 22182
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.7034484000
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.7034484100
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: email@feldinc.com

I've already replied on the other Poloniex thread:


I have since done a reverse IP lookup (http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/) and the only other site that appears to be hosted on the same server as Poloniex (IP 104.20.13.48) is http://extranet.feldent.com/

Here is the whois for feldent.com (http://www.whois.com/whois/feldent.com)


It might be worth contacting them to ask whether they had problems as well.  Since they are using the same server, a datacenter-related problem couldn't possibly affect one site without the other.

To me they are the biggest alt exchange and they have a lot of BTC liquid everyone is going to them why scam not saying they couldn't but why there is no competition and there probably bare minimum making 100+ BTC in fees a day so they are making a lot of money.