Bitfinex was forced offline after its customers' bitcoins were stolen

Rage Comment : Bitfinex, one of the world's largest digital currency exchanges, was fined by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for legal issues. Recently, it was suddenly revealed that the user's Bitcoin funds were stolen. Currently, 119,756 Bitcoins have been lost, with a total amount of more than 60 million US dollars. The platform has been offline and the website has remained in maintenance during the investigation. Of course, this is not the first digital currency exchange theft this year, and we will follow up on subsequent developments.

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Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex was forced offline after news reports that funds had been stolen from the exchange.

The Bitfinex website stated that it has suspended trading, deposits and withdrawals. The exchange representative confirmed that the current losses caused by the hacker attack have reached 119,756 bitcoins, worth more than $60 million.

Bitfinex said:

"We are investigating the vulnerability and determining what happened; we have confirmed that some customers have lost Bitcoin. We are identifying the affected users. During this investigation, for safety reasons, the Bitfinex.com website will be offline and only display page maintenance."

The exchange, which trades in a variety of digital currencies, said the hack affected only bitcoin accounts and may have liquidated certain trading positions that were active at the time of the attack.

"When calculating individual client losses, we may need to settle trading positions, corresponding financing or collateral affected by the vulnerability."

Bitfinex said:

"We will consider multiple options later in the investigation phase to try to resolve customer losses."

The exchange also had a security issue in May last year, with hot wallets storing bitcoin funds becoming targets of attacks. This year, ShapeShift and Gatecoin exchanges both suffered losses due to vulnerabilities.

Bitfinex did not immediately respond to requests for comment.