Hackers stole Bitcoin from the exchange for 70 million $

News 7 December, 2017

According to the latest data the Internet-editions from the stock exchange NiceHash was stolen cryptocurrency amounting to almost $ 70 million.

Amid growing hype around continuously rising prices for critobulus Bitcoin exchange, which sells online currency can not handle the number of incoming operations and sometimes fail. Perhaps one of these crashes took advantage of experienced hackers and cracking the protective system of the exchange, took from it a large amount of Bitcoin.

According to preliminary calculations, the amount of damage exceeded $ 68 million. However, a more accurate figure is established by the employees of the exchange NiceHash.