It's been just one week since the New Year and we have our first major cyber crime: The Slovenian Bitcoin Exchange, Bitstamp was violated yesterday, and has suspended his services at the moment, according to ZDNet.
A message that exists in the original σελίδα of Bitstamp reports that one of the company's business wallets was breached on January 4, 2015. The company subsequently suspended its services. According to the company, nearly 19.000 BTC worth about $5 million have been stolen. One BTC is about 270 dollars.
The company states that most of its funds are kept in "cold storage" or "cold storage", i.e. in systems that do not have access online – and only the digital currencies used for frequent online transactions are gone.
The company asked its customers not to make deposits issued at older Bitcoin addresses, to prevent further losses. Bitstamp also stated that "all customers who lost digital currencies prior to the temporary suspension of services will not be affected and the amounts will be paid in full."
Bitstamp has yet to reveal more details about it infringement or when their service will be restored. Meanwhile, the company's CEO Nejc Kodrič apologized via his account on Twitter:
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