Quote from: WillyZ on February 20, 2019, 02:45:45 PM

Get your funds off an exchange, unless you are actively trading them. But as you are currently holding them on Localbitcoins I assume you are just holding your funds. In that case, there's no point in holding your funds on any exchanges, even if they haven't been hacked. Better safe than sorry. You can use secure hardware wallets (buy a brand new one from the official site, not a used one) or smartphones or computers that have been built for maximum security (BitWings is one company that is developing such devices). Many beginners and even more experienced crypto people forget that even though blockchain is decentralized and secure, most exchanges are not like this. Most well known exchanges are still centralized which means they are not as secure as you would hope to. Just look at the news.

No one can say for sure that either a exchange is 100% secure or not.
But I do not that any exchange can claim their security as 100%. There are always chances for an exchange to be hack.
We do not any other option except to take the risk if we want to continue crypto trading. I hope that in future exchanges will insure their security more and more.