BTC-e hacked ??

[1Referee]

https://www.xbtce.com is up.

It's doesn't trade if the BTC-e backend is down, it's just another frontend.

Well, some trades are coming through over at xbtce.com. Last trade 08:44:32 @ $2440.8 - that means the entire platform isn't completely down. After thinking for a while, it might be that they noticed an intruder within their system, and for that reason decided to shut down their platform till it's known how it got in. If that's really the case, they will surely not share that with the outside world as that would be a guarantee for panic. I however would have liked them to just offer a better form of communication - last statement from their twitter account dates back from 12 hours ago.

[daserpent]

More details about the founders ::

https://btceclaims.github.io/

Xbtce recent tweet : "xBTCe switches to alternative liquidity sources due to current unavailability of btc-e. #xBTCe" (https://twitter.com/xbtce_info/status/890053136802603010)

[bj9k]

Situation getting more serious.

They have disabled all mt4 accounts. MT4 servers are working fine, response time still 150ms but after trying to login there is a note "account disabled". Logging worked yesterday fine for many hours after outage started. MT4 server time is now staying frozen at 04:21:22.

They have probably worked through entire night and it seems to me that they could not solve this problem by themself and took everything offline.

[npsonic]

Do you think that we will get our alts back? ETH wallet is still untouched, so would think that there is at least little hope.

[bj9k]

I found this
https://pamm.btc-e.com/en/Top/Masters
 

Now it shows "HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.". Was something else that you have seen before?

[Daemon_Hell]

I found this
https://pamm.btc-e.com/en/Top/Masters
 

Now it shows "HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.". Was something else that you have seen before?

It looked like pamm service, nothing more. Myself, I consider almost any pamm service a scam but may be it's just me.
Curiously it got deleted after post here.

[CoinSpeculator]

i scare they run this 

[bj9k]

I found this
https://pamm.btc-e.com/en/Top/Masters
 

Now it shows "HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.". Was something else that you have seen before?

It looked like pamm service, nothing more. Myself, I consider almost any pamm service a scam but may be it's just me.
Curiously it got deleted after post here.

They might be closing possible hacker entry points or just taking offline inaccurate data. But I am wondering why haven't they shut down pamm web site too as they did with their main web server.

[Steply]

They might be closing possible hacker entry points or just taking offline inaccurate data. But I am wondering why haven't they shut down pamm web site too as they did with their main web server.

Perhaps pamm server is located on another site. And loading the data through API from the core server. When access to btc-e.com gone, they turned off pamm.

[Daemon_Hell]

They might be closing possible hacker entry points or just taking offline inaccurate data. But I am wondering why haven't they shut down pamm web site too as they did with their main web server.

Perhaps pamm server is located on another site. And loading the data through API from the core server. When access to btc-e.com gone, they turned off pamm.

PAMM site was working today (approx at 8-9 CEST)

[ahmedjadoon]

My funds were in USD. Does that mean I'm safe even if bitcoins were stolen?

[adu1t]

Ok. What if it is real scam?

Anyone knows how to report to FBI?
This is a very big deal

[SDFG]

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[BitHodler]

My funds were in USD. Does that mean I'm safe even if bitcoins were stolen?

It all depends on how BTC-E is going to handle a potential theft of crypto funds ~ in recent examples we have seen that exchanges tend to generalize losses by giving every user with a balance a haircut worth an x percentage.

I have around $300 in fiat stuck there, which I obviously want to get back, but there are people with tens of thousands worth of funds, or even millions, that are now desperately waiting for good news.

[npsonic]

My funds were in USD. Does that mean I'm safe even if bitcoins were stolen?

It depends what BTC-e will do if Bitcoins really where stolen. Maybe they let people withdraw there remaining assets or they might never come back online again.

[deisik]

My funds were in USD. Does that mean I'm safe even if bitcoins were stolen?

That's unlikely though it would greatly depend on the scale of the hack (if there is any)

Approximately a year ago (on August, 2nd, to be precise) Bitfinex got hacked, and over 120,000 bitcoins had been stolen. The exchange socialized the losses among all exchange clients, i.e. the clients' funds were diminished appropriately, and they were given so called redemption tokens covering the loss, which could be traded for dollars and bitcoins. By now all these tokens have already been extinguished, which basically means that Bitfinex paid out their debt in full. On the other hand, when Bter got hacked for over 7,000 bitcoins in February, 2015, only Bitcoin holders were affected at the time. I had doges back then, and I successfully withdrew them all as soon as Bter became operational again in about two weeks after the hack

[ahmedjadoon]

Thank for clarification. I still think there is no hack. Why would they post about maintenance?

[th3joker]

Thank for clarification. I still think there is no hack. Why would they post about maintenance?

Because typically every other site that was hacked used this as cover while they worked out the level of buttrapeage that had occurred.

[TheKoziTwo]

what? since when was btce ever hacked? i was a member since the 2013 rise and cant remember they were hacked before... anyway. staying up late as im in cash there and wanted to rebuy when the sercive comes back

BTC-E was hacked in 2012. Hackers gained access to their Liberty Reserve IPN and could inject unlimited fiat into the exchange. They bought up various crypto's and withdrew approx 4500 BTC.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121119200602/https://btc-e.com/news/81

[stingray454]

My funds were in USD. Does that mean I'm safe even if bitcoins were stolen?

That's unlikely though it would greatly depend on the scale of the hack (if there is any)

Approximately a year ago (on August, 2nd, to be precise) Bitfinex got hacked, and over 120,000 bitcoins had been stolen. The exchange socialized the losses among all exchange clients, i.e. the clients' funds were diminished appropriately, and they were given so called redemption tokens covering the loss, which could be traded for dollars and bitcoins. By now all these tokens have already been extinguished, which basically means that Bitfinex paid out their debt in full. On the other hand, when Bter got hacked for over 7,000 bitcoins in February, 2015, only Bitcoin holders were affected at the time. I had doges back then, and I successfully withdrew them all as soon as Bter became operational again in about two weeks after the hack

I personally have in the $100k range on btc-e . Luckilly I was mostly in fiat when the hack happened, so not missing any coins and think it has a higher chance of being returned than BTC. Although with Aug 1 coming up soon with price expected to rise heavily after, having them reimburse coins would probably be a way better deal.

Either way, I'm not sure I'll every see any of it again, and it sucks really bad. I had my coins in cold storage for 4 years, just moved them onto BTC-e this week to sell / try to buy in lower for aug 1. Very, very bad decision.