Youbit Exchange shuts after hacking attack

in #bitcoin7 years ago

A South Korean exchange Youbit announced, it went into bankruptcy after been attacked by hackers and a total of 17% of its assets are been compromised. Youbit already has faced a attack in late march which resulted in loosing of 4000 bitcoins. They suspect the hackers might belong to North Korea according to their ip stats and reports.

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Is this a high volume exchange?

In south Korea it stands in 2nd rank after bitthumb.

When did this happened ?

Tuesday

Oh gosh .. so now total bitcoin stolen from 2009 to the day crossed 990k btc