Bitfinex HACKED - funds stolen !

[Mirkoca]

still nothing official?? I have around 100btc stuck there!

Call the police.

You'll probably have more fun contacting this lot - https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

A friend of mine was interviewed by the FBI, even though he was in the UK. I was dead jealous.

I mean local police. Not all customers lives in States.

[gentlemand]

I mean local police. Not all customers lives in States.

The FBI will certainly be interested and they do have an awful lot of US customers. It was US regulators who fined them even though they're (likely to be) nowhere near the US. My local police are better equipped for chasing escaped sheep than online criminals.

[leen93]

Still haven't been able to get in touch with Jean Louis van der Velde or one of those Italians...  

and you won't. I am sure there is nobody in HK now. they are in Europe thinking how to spend your and other clients money.
leen93, you have around of 1 mil USD with them. it's not 100k or 200k...it's 1 MILLION USD.

 go to police and report it. you are losing valuable time.

you think I didn't do that yet? That was the first thing I did once I heard about it. But currently in South Africa and don't expect too much from these people...

Still not a single fucking update from bitfinex either after 4 days -_-

[h3rlihy]

It's a pretty shitty situation. Communication on reddit was good until last night. Now nothing for 12+h.

[mitache365]

-36% for all users!

[razor5cl]

I mean local police. Not all customers lives in States.

The FBI will certainly be interested and they do have an awful lot of US customers. It was US regulators who fined them even though they're (likely to be) nowhere near the US. My local police are better equipped for chasing escaped sheep than online criminals.

Bitfinex is based in Hong Kong, IIRC. Remember hearing a lot about how bitcoin is "unregulated" there when the attack happened. But yes, the FBI always likes to get involved in big scale cyber crime cases, a figure I heard was if more than $100,000 dollars is involved then they want to hear about it. And at least that amount was stolen here so we'll probably see them somewhere.

[landomata]

All Bitfinex customers to lose 36.067% in socialized losses.

https://coins.newbium.com/post/244-bitfinex-customers-to-lose-36-067

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[illyiller]

still nothing official?? I have around 100btc stuck there!

Well looks like you are gonna lose 36% of that.... and my guess is that you will receive the USD equivalent for the BTC, not the actually BTC. Can't really expect Bitfinex to buy 120k BTC on the open market, and no courts would frown upon paying customers the USD equivalent.

I imagine a premium will develop between Bitfinex and the other exchanges....

[calkob]

its abit sad that this is still going on but it will also be interesting to here how it happened so that we can learn for the future......

[siberianbreaks]

I thought those trading site are strong in security but they will still hack by someone. do you think guys they are saying the truth that they are hacked?
For me year by year its happening and i think they are just the same as other happen..
My suspek for these is where he buy the template also who maintain the security of that bitfinex also hacker monitored the site for almost 8 months or 1 year..

i think the same

[CryptoVision]

That's why offline wallets are always welcome.

[btbrae]

36% isn't as bad as I thought. I think most people were thinking 80%+ which would be unrecoverable. If commissions are tunneled into compensation then things can probably be back to normal within a year.

That's if you believe it's 36%. I kind of don't. I think we will only find out if enough people remove their (remaining) coins and we see if withdrawals stop working aka. the Karpeles effect.

[illyiller]

36% isn't as bad as I thought. I think most people were thinking 80%+ which would be unrecoverable. If commissions are tunneled into compensation then things can probably be back to normal within a year.

That's if you believe it's 36%. I kind of don't. I think we will only find out if enough people remove their (remaining) coins and we see if withdrawals stop working aka. the Karpeles effect.

Well, the implication is that this represents 36% of all assets. Estimates on the hacked bitcoin as a % of Bitfinex's total bitcoins were more in the range of 60-70%. So this is pretty reasonable. I sure hope that directors are contributing significant profits to the efforts -- prospective investors will expect no less. Still hoping that the 36% loss is recovered in a buyout scenario.

[crairezx20]

its abit sad that this is still going on but it will also be interesting to here how it happened so that we can learn for the future......

I think bitfinex announce that they will giveback your credit that you can redeem after they are done to calculate all their loses.. so i think better to wait more days or weeks.

[johhnyUA]

-36% for all users!

Looks like communists rules BF.

[designerusa]

bitfinex has declared that it will cut 35% prices down from all of its users. this is so weird. after this announcement, bitcoin prices increased 10 dollars suddenly ..this is ridiculous.

[vero]

It's a pretty shitty situation. Communication on reddit was good until last night. Now nothing for 12+h.

there is no longer talk because it is likely to reveal such cases are very small, look at the case in mtgox is still unresolved.

[Hit It!]

bitfinex has declared that it will cut 35% prices down from all of its users. this is so weird. after this announcement, bitcoin prices increased 10 dollars suddenly ..this is ridiculous.

Privatize profits, socialize losses.  The rich get richer. 

[calkob]

And the price of BTC falls down  .

Good that the privce falls it means i can buy more at a cheaper price...... there is nothing wrong with bitcoin......