🆘 Binance Suspends Withdrawals As Trading Bot Hacked Some Users Accounts.
According to several posts on Reddit, Twitter and other social channels, someone hacked the trading bot used by majority of people on Binance. The hackers sold the altcoins in comprised accounts and bought another virtual coin, Viacoin (VIA).
Binance has denied that it was hacked after an extensive halt of trading and customer withdrawals of funds at one of the worlds biggest cryptocurrencies exchanges.
The support staff at said they are investigating reports of some users having issues with their funds. Our team is aware and investigating the issue as we speak. Please remain patient and we will provide an update as quickly as possible they added
Is it known what bot it is?
Usually a bot runs at the users PC/server, so it should be impossible to hack all at once.
Only if all the bots run on the developers server, it is possible to get access to all of them.
So: never use a trading bot at websites. Always run it in your own environment.