Popular Russian bitcoin exchange BTC-e has been down for almost 3 hours with the official twitter saying they are having a "server maintenance".
The weird thing is, they have never had maintenance works without prior announcements in the past. And coincidently, bitcoin prices have been crashing since btc-e went down.
Are they hacked and just denying the attack by calling it a maintenance job (like most hacked websites choose to do) ??
Hopefully, btc-e comes back online soon.
Whether hacked or not I think anyone who value his coins so much no matter how little should not leave any on at exchange or online wallet because things like this. I faced the same issue with one of the online wallets yesterday although it was for few minutes which left without being noticed, immediately I heeded to the advice that has been circulating over the forum for a while in which I would suggest everyone to do.