CoinGather is officially hacked

[coinriches]

Latest update

March 15, 2018

Information on Coingather.com Seizure

The Coingather.com domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 981, 982, and 1960 upon a probable cause finding by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio that the Coingather domain was used, or was intended to be used, to commit or facilitate criminal violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 (Prohibition of unlicensed money transmitting businesses). Please refer back to this page for future updates regarding the status of accounts held on the exchange.

If you would like to file a complaint and have not already done so, please visit www.IC3.gov. Please include in the body of the complaint a reference to “Coingather” and your contact information, including the e-mail address that you originally registered with the exchange.

Hello @amir714, it says "Please refer back to this page for future updates regarding the status of accounts held on the exchange", I remember seeing this page back then. Pls can you gimme the exact page link now?

[Koro-Sensei]

So my hunch were right, down websites without any updates on their social media are a big sign that they're either "Hacked" or pulling an exit scam.
Nice timing for exit scam too, Btc just reached $9k

This site is unpopular even though it was announced here few years back, also there were posts about withdrawal issue before this offline thing. Seems that several users of the site came here on bitcointalk because of this. I saw newbies posting in the ANN Thread about the site being inaccessible since 23rd.

It's really hard to trust exchanges, new or old, trusted or well known, the thing is they are holding people's money and they could run anytime.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=720274.0

Never trust an exchange, even if they're long established within the community, we never know what they'll do in the future.
Hence the reason many users always recommend not to put large fund within the exchange wallet.
Let's learn from Mt.gox and Crpytsy Incident (and now probably CoinGather) how to secure our Coins safely

It's actually the first time I've heard of that exchange. Sads news though.
This is why decentralized exchanges matter. Even the largest, most deemingly trustworthy companies bail out.

Me too first time I've heared though the miney shouldn't be a problem since it's not that familiar of a site so maybe it's a little attack that holds almost nothing though it's not literally nothing just implying that it's a bit low. The site's been down for quite some time but if the devs are actively engaged it wouldn't have been this long to revive their site unless they actually bailed out as you've said seems fishy to me.