Employees of the analytical company Autonomous Research conducted a study in which they found out that over the years since the appearance of the crypto-currency years, hackers were able to steal more than $ 1.2 billion in bitcoin and ether equivalent. At the same time, researchers say, at the end of 2017 the amount was even more impressive.
It seems that theft of the crypto currency is a very profitable occupation, because in a year it brings criminals about 200 million dollars. In addition, more than 14 percent of all stocks Bitcoin and Ether are currently earned dishonestly.
Many people consider the blockade to be super-secure, but in fact in many respects it is almost as vulnerable as other software. The market of crypto-currency is now quite immature, there are a lot of block diagrams, and each of them has its own mistakes, and the more of them, the more difficult it is to cover them all, study and secure them, "explains Matt Sueche from Comae Technologies, which deals with blocking security.
Crypto-security specialists are sure that the market for software, services and hardware solutions for the protection of the blockboys will continue to grow actively. So, last year its volume was estimated at 259 million dollars. In 2018, growth is expected to reach 355 billion.