Scrypt. CC Hacked, Large Amount of Bitcoin Stolen
Yet another case of Bitcoin theft comes to the fore to haunt the Bitcoin consumers. Altcoin cloud mining hash power online marketplace Scrypt. CC has been hacked and a large, undisclosed amount of Bitcoin and hashing power has been stolen. The announcement, posted by the admin Marcelo Santos, can be seen on the website after a login. The hacker committed this crime while the admin was in the final step of finishing with the server upgrade. A section of the message reads: "Around 14 hours ago our database was breached, the hacker credited himself BTC and KHS and withdrew BTC until our....
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