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Learning & News => News related to Crypto => Topic started by: Goodcat49 on February 15, 2019, 01:44:04 PM
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After the hack that saw over $16.2 million illegally stolen from New Zealand’s hacked cryptocurrency exchange, police in New Zealand has given the go-ahead to Cryptopia, a crypto exchange that was recently hacked, to reopen and start operating at any time it's ready, according to a report on Wed February 13, 2019, by the New Zealand Herald, a local news outlet.
No Loose Ends
The attack started on January 15, as Coinidol reported, with funds taken from 10,000 Ethereum wallets. Various analysts have approximated the total amount of stolen funds to be over $23 million.
The unidentified Cryptopia hacker employed ETH address 0x3b46c790ff408e987928169bd1904b6d71c00305. The stolen crypto was then moved to this particular address 0xaa923cd02364bb8a4c3d6f894178d2e12231655c.
Exchange can Work Again
According to nzherald, Greg Murton, the Detective Inspector, purportedly revealed that the major part of the work that is needed in Christchurch, Cryptopia’s business premises, by the High Tech Crime Group has been successfully accomplished, saying that the exchange management currently has complete access to their infrastructures and the business premises at large.
Murton noted that New Zealand authorities such as the police, are not stopping the exchange from recommencing their usual activities, and further purportedly revealed to specify exactly when the charges will be set. Cryptopia can resume its operations. The detective inspector also refused to talk about how much digital money was maliciously stolen in the event of the hack, which was reported in mid-January this year.
While the authorities have given the hacked exchange a green light to “open again whenever they like,” Cryptopia’s official website is still offline reporting maintenance and referencing a report by the country’s police on the inquiry and investigation of Cryptopia.
Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/cryptopia-hack-police/
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