So what actions do you suggest we should take now?

I contacted a bussiness associate who does a lot of work in Russia, he said it would take a lot of time and a lot of money to bring someone to justice there. Personnel records are not as well organized as here in europe and you would probably have to rent a P.I. to find him, and then we would still have to see how we get our money back.

For some reason I came accross this link which I have not seen before.
It holds the following information, names of some of the other owners and a very nice record of companies where Vitaly has worked.
So perhaps someone with more possibility's of taking action in Russia can find him.

https://gust.com/companies/CoinEX

Company Overview
CoinEX is decentralised cryptocurrency exchange and mining platform:
Exchange - using CoinEX.pw in a realtime. Facilitating the digital currency communities in a clean and efficient framework.
Mine - using CoinEX.pw, it’s the core of digital currencies. Through mining, coins become available. They can then be traded on the exchange and become available to the general public.
Combine - integrates both mining and trading into one central site.
Management Team
 
Roman Sklyar
Co-Founder/Project Manager
2013 – Present Time CoinEx.pw as Co-Founder\Project Manager. 2012 – 2013 JSC RUSAL Traders as Business Consultant \Project Manager. 2011 – 2012 The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM as Business Consultant. 2010 – 2011 JSC “SeverStal” as Project Manager of SAP implementation. 2009 – 2010 JSC “NOVOLIPETSK STEEL” as Financial consultant at BDO. 2007 – 2009 LC “SIBIRSKIY GIGANT” as Financial consultant at BCC Consulting Company.
 
Vitaly Sorokin
Founder/Lead Developer
2013 – Present Time Founder of CoinEX Lead Developer. 2012 – 2013 - Startup “Flocktory.com” as Senior Ruby Developer. 2010 – 2011 LC “Nigma.ru” as Senior Software Developer and System Administrator 2009 – 2010 LC “Networks Solutions” as Senior Developer of Bill-ing System. 2005 – 2009 Parallels (SWSoft) as Developer.
 
Aleksander Zykov
Marketing Manager
2013 – Present Time CoinEx.pw. 2011 – 2013 - imi.vc as Lead UI/UX Designer, as Product Manager. 2009 – 2011 - Saatchi&Saatchi Moscow, as Digital Art Director (global brands such as Google, JTI, Green Peace, Proctor&Gamble ect.) 2007 – 2009 - freelance, as Digital Art Director (local brands such as Admiral Film, Hobby Games, Wellme, Kilt Shop ect.) 2000 – 2003 - Contracts with Rus-sian Radio, Lexicon Publicity, Con-tent Consulting, Yar Hotels.

Than this must be another asshole the crypto community doesn't need.

I hope your not joking that would give the community another push towards the negative, to me it seems like there's a whole lot more going on than just a database faillure.

But there is nothing to avoid anymore, when the site was still up and accesible through an adjustment of the hosts file, you could still check the balance and have some form of "false" hope that these guys where actually just arrogant asshole's which would come through somehow.
Call me stupid or ignorant of moron or whatever, I don't care, it just says something about you, but I checked in from time to time to see the sad score of my missing altcoins. (and it is a lot.) and hoping it would work out someway.

I did got 32 LTC out when Erundook said it was possible to withdraw, but I could not take out my other coins (12000 EXC for example which are now worthless.)
There was no more trading going on since it wasn't accesible anymore in a normal matter, and I cancelled all the open orders leaving me with just some balances to look at.

A hard lesson learned, don't trust exchanges and don't trust active community members who advise certain exchanges to you because they know the owners are great people.

So please leave this forum intact so everyone can read how it went down.

+1, removing this thread would only lead to erasing it ever happened, why would you want to do that?

Please take your time to read the line after that before you answer.
Duh!

The site is completly gone now.
Suddenly I realize what has happened.

This picture is a cry for help! He must still be in that elevator.

http://ilikekillnerds.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/8d63138925e386eb00c1c152ed68b457.jpg

Yeah, that just sucks with the current value's on coinex.
Why doesn't he put in buy orders and then make the coins he buys disappear, till it evens out with the lost coins. Just put a withdrawel hold on the coins.

Perhaps not daily, but weekly, or "All mining pools will be offline because we're working on them", or "Wallets are offline until refunded".
Now we are just left in the dark, guessing what is going on.
A lot of peoply try to continue trading on your site to help you out, you know? But without some words from you it just stops. At least I am glad to hear from you and will try to carry on trading on your site.

Well I am naïve and still believe in humanity so one might learn from his mistakes and might try to do things differently.

Or maybe the accidently deleted the wallets and did not have a backup.
I can understand they don't want to react to threats and trolls, but then they could send their customers a private mail.

Are you serious?

Quote from: erundook on March 30, 2014, 08:52:20 PM
CoinEx is online. Only BTC & LTC withdrawals will work yet, rest will come next week.

That was three weeks ago, not a word about the situation.
He can have all the time he wants for all I care, but by not giving any news, people will take their coins out when they can, so will I.

I agree, The ostrich tactic isn't a good one. We stil don't now if coins were stolen that were not in the orderlist.
For all of you talking about the risks, there is a big difference between losing your coins by making stupid trades, or by having them stolen, and you need volume to trade so you put a lot of coins online. By now everyone nows about security measures,  so I wanna now what happend before helping out with new investments.

Yes, and you are coming so much further, calling people names and acting on your emotions, getting yourself completly frustrated. What do you expect to gain out of that behaviour?
I have been in situations like this before. Don't let them fuck up your head man.

Yes, and that is exactly how it went down the first time.

I als had a lot of coins there, but I try to remain calm because they fixed it the first time, it doesn't make sense to me business wise. Why would you steal 150 btc from your own customers while you can make so much on transaction fee's.
It seems they were working hard on building their exchange. However, patience is running out and I do expect news today.

So it is possible? I had 2FA on. But as I understand the accounts were not hacked, but the wallet server.

How would I know if this list is not a way to make me dump certain altcoins?

Same here and i've added that node and it remained at 0 connections. However after downloading  your blockchain I got connections.