Finished my wine and was preparing for the night when I started receiving multiple news update in Facebook that Kraken is down.
It started several hours ago when Ripple groups' members were posting that they aren't receiving their Ripples or they can't withdraw it. Then shortly after, numerous posts that the site is down.
Website:
https://www.kraken.com/Now many rumours said they're behaving exactly like MTGOX's incident - a static page with a maintenance message before disappearing. All orders, API and so forth are not working.
Because of these concerns many FUD reports have been going around that they've been hacked. But of course, we ain't gonna fall for that.
Any Kraken users here? Care to update us on it? Like any email notification? I'm not a user there so I can't say much but it is very unnatural for an exchange to go offline so suddenly without any early notifications and for that long.
EDIT:
https://status.kraken.com/At least they're continuously updating their status page to give users some assurance.
Just hope it is really just maintenance and upgrades. If it is another hack, BTC and all altcoins are gonna have another dive.