Two platforms Exchange cryptocurrency global has become a victim of hacker attacks. The siber crime action make both lost digital currency whose value was gauged to reach hundreds of billions of dollars
One of the victims was Bithumb, who claims to be kecolongan the virtual coins valued at 35 billion won, or around Rp 445 billion. The sixth busiest in the world platform, they claimed to have been storing all assets belonging to clients into the storage media is not connected directly to the internet that are commonly called cold wallet.
While the other is Coinrail. Both came from South Korea, the platform claimed to lose around 30% of the total traded virtual coins, with a value estimated at 40 billion won, or around Rp 508 billion.
Same as Bithumb, Coinrail also says 70% of coins and tokens that remain are also saved to the cold wallet. Furthermore, the 2/3 of the cryptocurrency total stolen had been frozen through a partnership with the company that publishes digital currencies concerned.
His help the two platforms again highlight the security market cryptocurrency globally. This also makes it one of the most popular virtual currency in the world, Bitcoin, final value.
On various platforms and selling such global Bitstamp of Bitcoin Luxembourg and United Kingdom from Luno, the cryptocurrency value now revolve around USD 6,600 per chip, or approximately USD 93 million.
In fact, its value had plunged into USD 6,299 shortly after Coinrail experienced conceded on 11 June. The figure is the lowest since November 12, 2017. At that time, the value of the cryptocurrency briefly touched the figure of USD 5,800.
When compared to its highest point in mid-December last year, the value of Bitcoin already slumped around 70%. At that time, the value of virtual currency that almost touched the figure of USD 20,000 per kepingnya.
Any question marks instead of just menyasar to the Bitcoin. South Korea is also worth a first settled because digital currency theft incident that took place in the span of about 10 days.
Moreover, in last December, one of the original land of cryptocurrency Exchange platform Ginseng named Youbit declared bankrupt. It was decided after suffering hacker attacks twice