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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitfinex Seeks Communication With Bitcoin Thief
by
Xester
on 25/10/2016, 11:13:39 UTC
On August 2nd the Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was compromised for roughly $70 million worth of Bitcoin. According to sources, the attacker managed to drain the exchange through its multi-signature security — gaining 120,000 BTC from the breach. Now the exchange is trying to reach out to the responsible party in an attempt to get its customers’ Bitcoin returned.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-seeks-bitcoin-thief/

The question is if bitfinex itself was the mastermind in the hacking. First and foremost bitfinex is a large company and has the capability of spending millions to investigate using very highly skilled programmers. It is just an opinion but I do hope bitfinex is guilt free and will be successful taking back the coins. Whether it inside job or done by outside hacker the bitcoin is impossible to retrieve.