UK Crypto Exchange EXMO Offline Amid DDoS Attack

The total volume on the crypto exchange has fallen 4.9% in the last 24 hours. London-based cryptocurrency exchange EXMO suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack earlier today, causing the platform’s servers to become unavailable.In a tweet earlier today, EXMO reported that hackers had targeted the exchange with $75 million in trading volume in a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack. These cyberattacks typically overload a system with numerous requests from multiple virus-infected servers.Important: DDoS attack on EXMO ❗️ Please note the EXMO exchange website is now under....

Following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that targeted its server yesterday, European bitcoin exchange operator BTC-e continues to be offline. Bitcoin and alt.coins exchange BTC-e was knocked offline for several erratic hours yesterday. Users took to social media to speculate the reasons for the cause of the attacks with some stating that BTC-e was hacked, rather than being the target of a DDoS attack. In providing some clarity with the situation, the exchange’s Twitter account revealed: Furthermore, concerns raised from whispers of a hack seem to be unfounded with no real....

San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange, Kraken, experienced unexpected downtime today due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their site. Whether or not the attack was malicious or due to a recent influx of users is unknown. According to the Kraken support account on Reddit, the company was working to resolve the issue only minutes after reports began flowing in. "The site is down because we are currently under DDOS attack. We are working to resolve and will update you when we have further information." Seeing as the company is in the Pacific time zone, the employees were....

Early on Thursday morning, about 5:30 AM Eastern Standard Time to be exact, the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e is reporting that they are under DDoS attack and their site is currently offline. Going to the btc-e.com website returns a white page saying “DB connect error,” so there is no more information available from BTC-e. This is the second time this year that BTC-e has been taken down in this fashion. On Jan. 7th, they also suffered a distributed denial-of-service attacks, knocking it offline for several hours before returning to full service. Similar attacks have plagued the site since 2014.....

European bitcoin exchange BTC-e was offline for several hours today after the site said that it was the target of a distributed denial-of service (DDoS) attack. The site is intermittently available at press time, though according to data produced on the exchange’s front page, trades are being executed amid the user connectivity problems. Posts on social media suggest that the downtime lasted as many as four hours. The exchange previously reported that it was being attacked, and the downtime sparked concerns that the exchange had been compromised. The exchange, believed to be located....