Post
Topic
Board Exchanges
Topic OP
Bitfinex not returning old hot-wallet funds (SOLVED)
by
kimmel
on 27/05/2015, 22:04:21 UTC


I have serious suspect that Bitfinex is not playing fairly in the hack affair.

  • Easy as this, I had some automatic withdrawals set up in some mining accounts; and 0.49073604 BTC were sent to one of the PREVIOUS - TO - HACK BITFINEX DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS: 1EPt6wdYYoEDrXedC3U6CoSPtVY2n2wrEB
  • Then, minutes after, when I realised the problem I contacted Bitfinex Support Team. Their answer was that accounts were hacked and they couldn't do anything.  Huh Huh Huh Really?
  • They say the private keys of hot wallet were compromised. That means they changed Hot-wallet and deposit accounts and stopped looking the older ones?

Maybe they got hacked, but the common sense says that as they have thousands of users many btc Deposits will keep coming even if they ask nicely to stop.

- And then, BITFINEX DO HAVE THE PRIVATE KEYS AND SHOULD CARE OF HACKED ACCOUNTS even someone else may know them too; the obvious step is to keep monitoring the accounts and TRY TO SAVE BTC FROM ITS COSTUMERS AS THEY ARRIVE. The hacked accounts are Bitfinex accounts after all

THE FACT: My 0.49 BTC were sitting nearly 3 hours in my deposit account. Nobody took care of it, until finally a withdraw was made. You can check it: https://blockchain.info/address/1EPt6wdYYoEDrXedC3U6CoSPtVY2n2wrEB

Who made this withdraw? I would love to say "the HACKER", but who really knows Huh

I have answered Support team at bitfinex asking for a new solution, even they have publicly said that they will assume the losses... but until now....just silence!....really weird...