After a $31 Million Hack Crypto Exchange Bithumb Has Stopped Its Services

After a $31 Million Hack Crypto Exchange Bithumb Has Stopped Its Services
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2018-6-20 07:02

Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, is halting asset deposit and withdrawal services after a hack that has stolen 35 billion won (or $31 million) worth of cryptos from the platform.
The company said in an announcement today that the hack happened since late Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning Korean time.
Though Bithumb has yet to disclose which cryptocurrency or in what amount had been damaged, it said in the announcement that the loss will be covered by the platform.
As of press time, Bithumb is seeing over $300 million 24-hour trading volume on its platform, making it currently the sixth largest exchange in the world, data from CoinMarketCap shows.
As previously reported by CoinDesk, Coinrail, a smaller cryptocurrency exchange in the country also reported that it was hacked on June 10.

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