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Re: [2016-08-02] Bitfinex hacked, exchange goes offline during investigation
by
bhokor
on 02/08/2016, 20:08:55 UTC
Popular bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has been hacked and the site has been taken down while the exchange investigates exactly what happened and cooperates with law enforcement.

Read more: http://bitcoinx.io/news/articles/bitfinex-hacked-exchange-goes-offline-during-investigation/

The question will be whether this was a "hack" or an inside job with "hack" as the excuse.  ;-)  All too often it is the later while blaming the former. 

One hopes that as part of their business they included insurance for this type of event.


They have a big working bussines, only with the fees for  the margin lending (about 15%) really do you think they would kill his own golden chicken?