NiceHash said that Bitcoin was stolen because the wallet was hacked. The company is verifying the number of stolen bitcoins and cooperating with relevant departments to investigate. According to the address where the bitcoin wallet was stored, about 4,700 bitcoins were stolen this time.
Andrej P. kraba, marketing director of NiceHash, said that this was "a highly specialized attack with complex social engineering technology", and the lost 4,700 bitcoins were worth about $63.92 million, or about 460 million RMB. He said that the company is cooperating with the local government's investigation, but would not disclose more information.
It is understood that NiceHash is a mining computing power market in digital currency, where people seeking to sell mining computing power can exchange bitcoin.
In fact, malware like the famous Trojan encryption shuffler attacks not only users of Bitcoin, but also users of other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, ZCash, Monero, Dash and Dogecoin.
165438+ 10, the issuing company of the encrypted token Tether announced a theft case worth 3 1 ten thousand dollars. According to the announcement, these tokens were stolen from Tether Treasury wallet and then sent to unauthorized bitcoin addresses. The company said it would not redeem stolen tokens and tried to prevent them from entering the token ecosystem.
In the past few years, token trading platforms, including Bitfinex and Mt.Gox, have been frequently stolen, and 850,000 bitcoins on the Mt.Gox trading platform in Japan have been looted by hackers, triggering a "lightning crash" in the global bitcoin market. However, the impact of these events on the market seems to be short-lived, and the price of Bitcoin is still rising.
Xue Hongyan, director of the Internet Finance Center of Suning Financial Research Institute, believes that the reason for the theft of digital asset trading accounts and bank cards is actually the same reason, which is generally caused by the leakage of user names and passwords. However, there are many reasons for user name and password disclosure, such as Trojan virus in user equipment, database collision attacks on multiple platforms using the same user name and password, and system loopholes in the trading platform itself leading to user account and password disclosure.
Sergey Yunakovsky, a malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, believes that cryptocurrency is no longer an unreachable technology. Recently, we have observed an increase in malware attacks against different types of cryptocurrencies, and we expect this trend to continue.
The soaring price of cryptocurrencies is the main reason why they become targets of hackers. Bitcoin staged a crazy rise this week. With the approaching launch of Bitcoin futures in the US market this Saturday, the market's enthusiasm for Bitcoin reached a new climax on Thursday. The price of digital currency soared by about 40% in about 40 hours, breaking through the 5,000 yuan mark and17,000 US dollars. On Thursday, the price of bitcoin in some exchanges even rose to more than $65,438+$09,000, an increase of more than 50% in 24 hours.