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Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange - Mad-Architect - 03-31-2019

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             A South Korean based cryptocurrency exchanged was hacked yesterday, it is reported that the attackers sole almost 19 million. How it happened is still inconclusive, but what has been reported is that the hackers were able to compromise several hot EOS and XRP wallets and took out around 3 million EOS [19 million USD] and 20 million XRP [6 million USD] and move all of the funds to newly created accounts, some of these accounts were on other exchanges. 


      It is also suspected that the attackers may have had inside help.



      Original article can be found here.



              That was the news folks, have a good rest of the weekend, and stay safe out there.




        --Mad-Architect