It is another of the several factors that make cryptocurrencies a high risk investment, the security problems that have been settled, several times already, with millionaire robberies. In Korea, the exchange Coinrail has suffered a major computer attack in which altcoins have been stolen for a value of no less than 40 million dollars. The virtual currencies have returned to take a heavy blow after this attack of the weekend, which has been a 'small' altcoin attacked.
According to Coinmarketcap, the exchange volume for these cryptocurrencies is among the highest 90. The volume of operations with these altcoins is small, but the impact of those 40 million dollars has been even greater, since there has been a significant drop in the value of other crypts. They have been 19.5 million NPXS, another 13.8 million Aston X, 5.8 million Dent and more than 1.1 million dollars stolen from Tron. But also five other altcoins have been affected directly with more modest amounts and, as we said, this theft has indirectly impacted even Bitcoin.
The cryptocurrencies again collapse after a theft of 40 million dollars in altcoins, in a Korean exchange that has been hacked
At the moment, the same Bitcoin that at the end of last year marked its ceiling close to 20,000 dollars has a changeover to the US currency much lower. Its value is around 7,000 dollars, with a fall that is around 7% at the moment. The Ethereum also loses about 8%, and the Litecoin has left just over 6% of its value along the way. The hacking of this Korean exchange has once again caused panic among investors of the cryptocurrencies, and once again the sale of the main cryptos has exploded.
Todo este año no ha sido en absoluto positivo para el valor de las criptomonedas, que durante el último trimestre del pasado año 2017 marcó sus máximos históricos con el Bitcoin liderando la excepcional escalada.