Security breach exchange Bitfinex - Update 6th of Aug 2016

[qwizzie]

https://twitter.com/bitfinex?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor



https://www.bitfinex.com/


for status updates check here : https://bitfinex.statuspage.io/

Latest update dd 4th of Aug 2016 :



Latest update dd 6th of Aug 2016

Bitfinex Interim Update

Incident Report for Bitfinex


     

[Za1n]

Just another example of why not to leave funds on an exchange for extended lengths of time. 

I feel bad for those who lost out, I hope the amounts were minimal and Bitfinex is able to make everyone whole.

[qwizzie]

Just another example of why not to leave funds on an exchange for extended lengths of time.  

I feel bad for those who lost out, I hope the amounts were minimal and Bitfinex is able to make everyone whole.

I cant believe i'm still surprised at this whole hacking thing but i actually am.
Thought their security was pretty tight nowadays after their last hack from some time ago ....

[GreenBits]

Just another example of why not to leave funds on an exchange for extended lengths of time. 

I feel bad for those who lost out, I hope the amounts were minimal and Bitfinex is able to make everyone whole.

Didn't expect these guys to get breached! To minimalize the poor press that's going o cone from this, I'm in the same camp, I hope this is small and fixable. I wonder what happened here? I thought these guys had tight security like Coinbase.

[Piston Honda]

well looks like 1ex.trade v2 is coming just in time!!  
i suggest u try a proper site for a change, new site will prob be up by tonight or sometime in the coming day or two.

meanwhile another 'big time' site hacked...when will they learn to stop being cheap and improve their fucking security!
they were just "down" like 3 wks ago.  this is not some chump change btc they are dealing with daily here.

[criptix]

how much has been stolen?

might be relevant to the btc drop?

[qwizzie]

how much has been stolen?

might be relevant to the btc drop?

they didnt say, only that they are investigating it..

We are investigating the breach to determine what happened, but we know that some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen. We are undertaking a review to determine which users have been affected by the breach. While we conduct this initial investigation and secure our environment, bitfinex.com will be taken down and the maintenance page will be left up.

for status updates check here : https://bitfinex.statuspage.io/
and here : https://twitter.com/bitfinex?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[raphma]

how much has been stolen?

might be relevant to the btc drop?

bitfinex is always relevant to btc, too much volume.
i was about to close my short when i saw this and now i think bitcoin is going deeper.

[ivan1975]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vtvau/bitfinex_hacked/

[qwizzie]

http://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-shuts-down-customer-bitcoin-stolen/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vtuxo/bitfinex_security_breach_trading_will_be_halted/

[statdude]

site always looked scammy, avoided since early 2013, never got how people would risk USD there for a 7% return.

I finally deposited a few ETC today to get the 100% APR and of course it goes down. LOL. I am the perfect jinx in crypto

[DeadBirdzz]

https://m.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vutnt/at_the_time_of_the_hack_the_transactions_in_the/

Talk about 157, 000 BTC being stolen but others are saying could be as high as 700,000 BTC

[statdude]

I saw a picture and a reference to 700k or 120k BTC being hacked - can anyone corroborate?

[Azael]

There's no intrinsic problem with Bitcoin anyway. The market recovers eventually, some $800million market cap vanished over a 120K or $70milion BTC theft? Give me a break.

Anyway, the fucking stupidity of exchanges never seases to amaze me. I'm happy to have stayed away from Bitfinex and I am sorry for everybody for their losses. On the lower ends it looks like it could be around 17K BTC perhaps even less if the transfers were from Bitfinex themselves to save what could be.. hard to say much more without more details.

[Azael]

120,000 BTC theft confirmed https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vupa6/p2shinfo_shows_movement_out_of_multisig_wallets/d61oe33?context=3&st=ire1pgv5&sh=acd1b607

[Minecache]

Hearing that ETC criminal coin wallets have also been compromised.

[statdude]

Hearing that ETC criminal coin wallets have also been compromised.

What do you mean by "ETC Criminal coin"?

[Azael]

Hearing that ETC criminal coin wallets have also been compromised.

Do you ever get tired of spreading lies? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vtuxo/bitfinex_security_breach_trading_will_be_halted/d61cjwa

[qwizzie]

[raphma]

Hearing that ETC criminal coin wallets have also been compromised.

What do you mean by "ETC Criminal coin"?

dont try to understand mETH heads dude.