Blockchain Reimbursing Stolen Bitcoins to Users

Blockchain Reimbursing Stolen Bitcoins to Users

Hundreds of bitcoins have been stolen yesterday from Blockchain.info users made temporarily vulnerable by a technical issue during a software update of the popular Bitcoin wallet. The company has plugged the security hole, and now they are reimbursing the users who lost their bitcoins. Also read: Blockchain.info Security Update Results in Stolen Bitcoins. "The issue was present for a brief period of time between the hours of 12:00am and 2:30am GMT on December the 8th 2014. The issue was detected quickly and immediately resolved. In total, this issue affected less than 0.0002% of our user....


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