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Learning & News => News related to Crypto => Topic started by: Flodner on March 30, 2019, 04:56:23 PM
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Today, March 30, crypto exchange Bithumb posted on Twitter that their cryptocurrency withdrawals and deposits have temporarily been paused.
In an explanation linked to the tweet, the exchange writes that at 10:15 (time zone unknown) on the 29th, they detected what they describe as abnormal withdrawals through their monitoring system.
The exchange continues that they have “secured all the cryptocurrency from the detection time with a cold wallet and checked them by blocking deposit and withdrawal service.”
According to the translated note, the incident was an “accident involving insiders” and they are conducting investigations with security companies, the cyber police agency, and KISA.
Read more here https://bitcoin2day.net/crypto-exchange-bithumb-reportedly-hacked/ (https://bitcoin2day.net/crypto-exchange-bithumb-reportedly-hacked/)
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Why are exchanges getting hacked this days it's becoming so alarming and fraustrating to the extent that it makes me to wonder and ponder it that is it advisable to leave our precious investments in exchanges.