While you were celebrating valentines day, the hackers were busy doing what they are good at. Yes, on 14th Feb, 2015, a China-based Bitcoin exchange Bter (bter.com) came under massive breach in which $1.75 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen.
Though the company is not revealing much information about the breach other than accepting that hackers were able to steal 7,170 BTC from company’s offline wallet in one single transaction.
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Yet, there is a positive side of this hack for ethical hackers and bug bounty specialists. Yes, the company is offering bounty of 720 BTC (this is about $170,000) to anyone who can get the money back and found out who hacked the Bter Bitcoin exchange.
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Last year hackers were able to hack Bitcoin brokerage company Bitinstant, breaching into its server and stealing $12,000 Worth Of Bitcoins in a DNS Attack.
Since the breach, authorities have taken the Bter domain offline till further notice. However you can view information about a Bitcoin transaction on the site’s homepage.
We hope the brains behind Bitcoin will concentrate on securing the Bitcoin exchanges or users will be far from investing.
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