The theft was carried out by breaking into the Bitcoin Nyeshash mining site, "We are working to locate the missing quantity, the incident was reported to the law enforcement authorities"
Bitcoin coins worth more than $ 60 million were stolen by hackers using a cyber attack on the NiceHash mining platform. Users posted a breakout on Twitter and Twitter accounts yesterday. Meanwhile, the virtual currency continues its surge, and today it has crossed the $ 16,000 threshold.
NiceHash allows people to offer a reliable supplier to Bitcoin miners to enable them to carry out currency mining. Virtual currency miners build complex mathematical equations to add virtual currency transactions to accounts in the BlockCins chain. The mining site initially announced on Twitter that it was undergoing "maintenance work" and later added that it was "working feverishly" to solve the problems affecting the site.
NiceHash later announced that it is "investigating the nature of the event" and that the site will remain closed for the rest of the day. In addition to the investigation being conducted by us, the incident has been reported to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we are cooperating with them, and we are working to confirm the amount of the missing bitcoin, and we are working hard to fix the problem in the coming days. action".
While the site was unable to name the stolen Bitcoin, users pointed to a Bitcoin wallet containing 4,736.42 coins, worth $ 68 million, as the target. As a result, the company's marketing director confirmed to Reuters that 4,700 Bitcoin had disappeared following the break-in.
This is not the first time people have lost millions in virtual currency. In November, $ 1 million worth of millions of dollars worth of multi-million dollars worth of dollars in Parity's virtual wallet were "frozen" after one of the users caused him to "commit suicide" by erasing his code and freezing the coins he contained.