[2017-02-25]Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed Has Cryptocurrency Platforms Taking Precauti

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Cybersecurity is one of the major concerns of the cryptocurrency industry. As the cyberthreats increase, online platform operators are flocking to performance and security solutions providers like Cloudflare to ensure that their websites are protected from DDOS and other attacks. But what happens when something goes wrong with the service that is meant to protect digital property worth millions of dollars?


Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed Has Cryptocurrency Platforms Taking Precautionary Measures

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That's how it is when you make use of centralized services to 'protect' yourself. You don't only have to worry about the exchange itself, but also the service that happens to offer exchanges 'protection'. It's once more a signal that people should STOP storing coins on exchanges when they are not trading. It's not for nothing that plenty of exchanges have opted their users to directly change their passwords.