Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing

Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing | Bitcoin Magazine

Bitfloor, the fourth largest exchange dealing in US dollars, has just announced[1] that it has been hacked, and the service has taken a loss of 24,000 BTC, worth about $250,000 at the time of the theft. As Roman Shtylman, the founder of Bitfloor, describes it, “last night, a few of our servers were compromised. As a result, the attacker gained accesses to an unencrypted backup of the wallet keys (the actual keys live in an encrypted area). Using these keys they were able to transfer the coins. This attack took the vast majority of the coins BitFloor was holding on hand.” As a result, BitFloor has paused all exchange operations and, depending on the effect that this will have on BitFloor’s finances, BitFloor may take one of two options. They may either take the loss and continue running in an attempt to eventually earn the money back or, in the worst case, shut down entirel...

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@CajunTechie » 06 Sep '12, 2am
#Bitfloor, the fourth largest #Bitcoin exchange, has been hacked. $250,000 allegedly missing. [link]
@pennmkse » 05 Sep '12, 3pm
Another high value bitcoin theft: [link] (aaroth)
@jwburrow » 05 Sep '12, 11am
Another Bitcoin server hacked. Still not seeing what makes Bitcoin better than standardized, regulated payment systems- [link]
@zobi8225 » 05 Sep '12, 10am
[link] La valeur du #bitcoin chute a cause d'1 hack d'une bank de conversion. C comme avec l'euro, les money sont dépendante !
@riffraff » 05 Sep '12, 6am
.. and another bitcoin exchange gets hacked. How many are they now? [link]
@fleijon » 05 Sep '12, 6am
Everytime I start thinking 'hey I should look into this bitcoin thing' something like this happends [link]
@stijnsanders » 05 Sep '12, 6am
If this hits mainstream I bet it won't say "#bitcoin is so strong attackers can only hit on end-points." [link]
@nc2y » 05 Sep '12, 6am
RT @random_walker: Another bitcoin theft [link] Is there a list of these?
@rickasaurus » 05 Sep '12, 5am
Yet another Bitcoin exchange is hacked, this time for $250K [link]
@taybenlor » 05 Sep '12, 4am
More BitCoin hilarity. Seems like someone new gets hacked every month. Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing [link]
@random_walker » 05 Sep '12, 4am
Another bitcoin theft [link] Is there a list of these?
@mazharul_anwar » 05 Sep '12, 4am
Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing. OUCH!! [link] #bitcoin #fb
@thomashuehn » 05 Sep '12, 3am
Und die nächste Exchange hat ihr Geld verloren. Bzw. das der Kunden. [link] #bitcoin #kopfschüttel
@dHeinemann » 05 Sep '12, 3am
*sigh* Another day, another BitCoin exchange is hacked. Bitfloor is out $250,000. [link]
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