Polish Bitcoin Exchange Bitcurex Relaunches Following Hacking Attack
After last week's hacking attack forced the site to temporarily shut down, Polish bitcoin exchange Bitcurex resumed service on 18th March. The platform said the perpetrators did not manage to break its security measures and gain full access to its operational hot wallet. "Today, we launch trade in Polish zlotys, and on Thursday at 12:00 local time in euros to ensure our support team has sufficient capacity of handling bids in this important period," Filip Godecki, a representative of Bitcurex, told CoinDesk. As earlier reported, the exchange decided to temporarily close its site on 14th of....
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Following an attack that brought trading at Polish exchange to a grinding halt late last week comes the news that the exchange has resumed service as of a couple of hours ago (noontime, Polish time) for clients trading with the Polish Zloty. For clients trading with the Euro, trading shall be resumed on the 20th of March, this Thursday, also at noontime, according to Bitcurex. User passwords have been reset, and the exchange is asking clients to use the "password reminder" function to obtain their login credentials. Deposit addresses have also been changed, and the exchange is warning....
Bitcurex is back in business after thwarting a major hacking attack. Update: EUR trading is back as well. Last week, Poland's largest bitcoin exchange, Bitcurex, halted all trades to investigate a hacking attack. A malicious user attempted to obtain 19,000 BTC from the exchange with a fraudulent buy order. However, the site was shut down within 5 minutes of the buy order, and Bitcurex offered the following statement soon afterwards: Dear Users, We successfully blocked a hacking attack on Bitcurex, preventing mass theft of BTC funds of our users. Thanks to automatic safety procedures,....
Bitcurex has issued an official update stating: "We inform that Bitcurex PLN will be resumed tomorrow, on March 18 at 12:00. Bitcurex EUR will be resumed on thursday on March 20, also at 12:00." UPDATE (14th March, 17:37 GMT): Bitcurex official statement added. Poland's leading bitcoin exchange Bitcurex temporarily shut down its site today following a hack which targeted funds in its users' bitcoin wallets. The exchange's staff published a message on Facebook which stated that due "to an error and ongoing maintenance works" the platform had decided to "temporarily shut down [its] service".....
Bitcurex, one of Poland’s largest exchanges has shut shop after a reported 2300 BTC ($ 1.5 mln) theft. The polish exchange was one of the oldest in the country. Before the website of Bitcurex was taken down, a message was posted by the administrators in Polish which translated reads: “On 13.10.2016 as a result of third-party systems service www.bitcurex.com/ www.bitcurex.com damaged by external interference in automated data collection and processing of information. The consequence of these actions is the loss of part of the assets managed by bitcurex.com/dashcurex.com.” People were....
Some 9 hours ago, astute Bitcoiners watching Bitcoin exchange charts were greeted by a surprising blip on Poland's largest Bitcoin Exchange: Bitcurex. Bitcurex has been in operation since July 2012, and is operated out of Lodz, Poland under the registered Digital Future Ltd. It seems that a hacker managed to create 94 million PLN (The Polish Zloty) and used the fiat to buy Bitcoin orders on the order book. According to witness reports from traders on Bitcurex at the time, the hacker used his hacked PLN to buy the order book and caused a noticeable ~10% change in the exchange rate. The....