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Cryptopia hacking investigation: $3.6 million and new circumstances

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The police of New Zealand confirmed that they are investigating a “grand theft” from the local cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia. This is stated in a press release published on January 16. According to some local media, it could be about $3.6 million. On January 14, Cryptopia suddenly closed its website “for service”, and later it turned out that it “suffered from security vulnerabilities”. On January 15, on Twitter, Cryptopia made a statement that the users had suffered “significant damage” and that “the exchange was set to the maintenance mode”. Since then, Cryptopia has also stated that it will not comment on further developments, as an official investigation is being conducted by law enforcement agencies. According to poli ... Read more about " Cryptopia hacking investigation: $3.6 million and new circumstances " on coinatory.com

Chinese police arrested the suspects in the theft of the cryptocurrency for 600 million yuan

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Xi"an, Aug. 19 - Police in Xi"an City, the administrative center of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, arrested three suspected of stealing cryptocurrency in the amount of about 600 million yuan (about $ 87 million). In March of this year, a man turned to the Xi"an police, who reported that hackers had illegally penetrated his computer and stole from him cryptocurrency (bitcoins and ether) for 100 million yuan. An investigation was launched, during which the police found that the suspects remotely hacked accounts with ... Read more about " Chinese police arrested the suspects in the theft of the cryptocurrency for 600 million yuan " on coinatory.com