EUR 58 million to Bitcoin stolen – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

the course of Bitcoin in dollar slumped after the theft.

This was for or thieves a worthwhile burglary: the Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex were stolen 120,000 Bitcoins by its own account, which corresponds to approximately 58 million euros.

Author: Franz Nestler, editor in business. Follow

the total trading on the exchange market was then set, as long as the theft is being investigated. Yet, for example, unclear whether the collapse of insiders was applied or it was hackers able to access from outside the systems of the operator Bitfinex.

The price of the virtual currency Bitcoin is at night then clearly plummeted, partly by up to 20 percent. From $ 600 per Bitcoin, it went down to up to $ 486. Later, the value recovered at about 540 dollars, but still a decline of 10 percent.

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on its website advertised the operator that they are “very concerned about the problem are” and try everything to solve the case. This is worrying since Bitfinex is one of the largest trading platforms for digital currency.

The hack is one of the largest thefts in the short history of Bitcoins, even if he is far from the case of the former largest exchange Mt. Gox enough – then went mysteriously 650,000 Bitcoin lost, presumably by an unknown insider

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