You quote a topic from January. I am asking about the "We must assume that the wallet has been compromised." message from TODAY. Do you know anything about it?

I won't add more funds - I want to take funds OUT of Vircurex and I expect someone from Vircurex to explain what is going on.

Did anyone get any email from them? Did anyone tried to contact them?

I just tried to access https://vircurex.com/ and I got "This webpage is not available"
I tried http://vircurex.com/ (http, not https) and here's what I got:


I haven't found ANY information about it on the forum. I haven't got any email from Vircurex.

Does anyone know:

1) what happened?
2) when it will be online?
3) are people's funds safe?

Vircurex should explain what is going on here AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

(I can only post here so if another forum would be more appropriate then please move this discussion.)

What would you recommend instead?

And could you explain briefly what you mean by the Bitcoinica fiasco and how it relates to Intersango? Thanks.

Intersango seems to be up again and no funds seems to be lost. What a relief...

I really hope that next time customers will be kept informed in situations like this.

And don't get me wrong, if the exchange is closed because for some reason there is no one to make sure that everything is safe then of course it is better than having the website hacked while the administrator is away. But please don't make it look like it was hacked or like you run away with the bitcoins if you don't want some of us to get a heart attack.

This is super scary because this is exactly how it would look like if the owners of Intersango had run with the money. I seriously hope that they are just being completely irresponsible and unprofessional instead of a scam.

Does anyone know who can be contacted to get some information about the status of the Intersango exchange?

Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=intersango+contact I found https://intersango.com/contact.php but it is "404 - Not Found". In the Google result of that page there is this snippet: "Contact. Intersango cares greatly about our support and service. We are always happy to answer any questions. Please feel free to email us anytime. We will ..." but since that page is "404 - Not Found" like https://intersango.com/faq.php and other pages I don't know what is the email address of someone who is "always happy to answer any questions".

I have written an email to Patrick Strateman address that is listed in the WHOIS of the intersango.com domain - http://whois.net/whois/intersango.com - but I got no reply. Has anyone written an email and got a reply?

There is also a phone number listed there. Has anyone tried to call this number?

Has anyone got any email from Intersango like every customer should have in a situation like this?

Does anyone know anything at all that would be helpful to the Intersango customers if the Intersango company itself doesn't care to inform them about this?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

(I'm posting it in the Newbies section because I have just registered here to post this question so I can't post anywhere else. Maybe this question belongs to some other section like Marketplace or Bitcoin Discussion - in that case please feel free to move it where appropriate. Thanks.)

When I try to log into the Intersango bitcoin exchange on https://intersango.com/ I get this message:


This is what I get on February 25, 2013.

All other addresses like https://intersango.com/howto/ are "404 - Not Found".

Anyone knows what's happening? They don't answer emails and I can't access my bitcoins that I have there!

It is pretty scary. Anyone knows what's going on? I have tried to find anything about this outage online but there is absolutely no information anywhere about it except that message on the main page which could easily be forged if the website was hacked or something shady was going on. I am really scared as hell because I have a lot of bitcoins there.

Please someone who uses Intersango answer if you can log in, if the bitcoins are safe and how can I contact support. Has anyone talked to them?

Thank you for every piece of information that you can provide....