Czech Bitcoin ATM Maker General Bytes Ready to Ship Worldwide
Fresh from its product unveiling at Bitcoin2014 in Amsterdam, Czech bitcoin ATM company General Bytes is ready to begin shipping eye-catching orange bitcoin 'BATMTwo' machines across Europe and internationally. The company has operated a prototype machine at the Brmlab Prague Hackerspace ('BATMOne') since February, and introduced another live machine at Cafe Caffeine (also in Prague) at the start of May. A third machine is being tested at Slovakia for deployment in a major fast food outlet, and General Bytes is shipping a few machines to the Netherlands next week. The company says it....
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The hack meant that all crypto going into the Bitcoin ATM would instead be siphoned off by the hackers. Bitcoin ATM manufacturer General Bytes had its servers compromised via a zero-day attack on Aug. 18, which enabled the hackers to make themselves the default admins and modify settings so that all funds would be transferred to their wallet address. The amount of funds stolen and number of ATMs compromised has not been disclosed but the company has urgently advised ATM operators to update their software.The hack was confirmed by General Bytes on Aug. 18, which owns and operates 8827....
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