Hackers on the rampage again, 59M $ Stolen

[jangan]

Japanese Exchange Zaif was reported to have suffered some security breach that resulted in about 59.7 M$ being stolen from the exchange. the hackers carted away with Bitcoin (5966), bitcoin cash and some Monacoin. It is not clear yet when or if customers will be fully reimbursed for the losses.
Zaif is operated by Tech Bureau Inc.under a regulated environment by Financial Service Agency- Japans foremost regulatory agency.
It is not likely that the market will react much to the hack ( or maybe it has already as we saw bitcoin slide to 6100 range and back up to 6400$ within an hour or this was caused by the CBOE future closure).
This brings to bear once again the need to never leave some substantial amount of exchanges.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-59-million-in-losses-reported
https://jp.reuters.com/article/zaif-tech-bureau-inspection-idJPKCN1M001Y

[etoker]

The biggest problem of the system is that these vulnerabilities are the reason why the older generation does not accept this system.every resulting robbery news is breaking the brand value of the system.To minimize this, large organizations of the industry should work to prevent it.

[paolobaltimori]

I really hope that someone will find a concrete solution for making everything really secure in exchanges because otherwise there will never be a wild adoption of crypto