As of on Thursday night Bithumb the biggest bitcoin exchange was hacked by anonymous hackers where exchange as no clue who exactly hacked there wallets one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea, reported that it had been hacked, and the hackers had managed to steal 35 billion South Korean won (about $ 30 million). The exchange also reported that all stolen cryptocurrency will be recovered from Bithumb’s own reserves. According to CoinMarketCap, Bithumb’s crypto exchange is on sixth place among the world’s cryptocurrency exchanges by the daily trading volume.
This is not the first hacker attack on crypto exchange with the withdrawal of funds: On June 10, the Coinrail Exchange announced the hacking and theft of crypto assets; the amount of stolen funds was not disclosed.
Vladimir Smerkis, Tokenbox co-founder and managing partner, advised cryptocurrency investors to keep the minimum amount of funds on crypto exchanges. “Keep there the funds for trading or exchange operations only,” — he specified to Prime Russia.
Also Mr.Smerkis pointed out that the Bithumb exchange “is almost inaccessible to Russian investors.” “Because this is a purely South Korean stock exchange, the largest in its country, and 99.9% of Russian investors are not on it,” — he said.
