Topic: Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after massive theft (Read 705 times)
Nice security there.
So crazy. Yesterday, I was about to reply to their last tweet asking how they intend to prove they had all BTCs reserves after stumbling across their business recently. That would have been epic timing but i never sent it.. damn.
Gotta hold everyone to a higher level of standard before we even consider doing biz with them. Although I would never use or advise anyone else to use a service like this, was researching it anyway...at least their cold storage was really cold storage.
Gotta hold everyone to a higher level of standard before we even consider doing biz with them. Although I would never use or advise anyone else to use a service like this, was researching it anyway...at least their cold storage was really cold storage.
Another internal theft. Law enforcement will not get involved.
Flexcoin, a site that described itself as the “world’s first bitcoin bank,” has closed after it got hacked and all of the bitcoins it had placed in online storage were stolen, the site recently announced.
Flexcoin was attacked and robbed March 2 of all coins in its “hot wallet”—a term that refers to bitcoin online storage—the site said in an announcement posted to its homepage. The attacker made off with 896 bitcoins, which at current prices across several exchanges would amount to roughly $600,000.
Flexcoin also said it will return to their owners the bitcoins it had put in “cold storage,” which weren’t stolen because they’re held offline.
The company will shut down immediately because it does not have the resources or assets to recuperate from the loss, it said. Flexcoin will work with law enforcement to determine the origins of the attack.
Flexcoin directs affected users to its terms of service. According to that document, Flexcoin transactions were carried out using HTTPS encryption but the company “is not responsible for insuring any bitcoins stored in the Flexcoin system.”
Users should also monitor the company’s Twitter account for updates about the situation, according to Flexcoin. In its most recent Twitter message, posted Tuesday, the company announced it would be “shutting its doors” and provided a link to its homepage.
Flexcoin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Flexcoin’s closure comes less than a week after Mt. Gox, a prominent Bitcoin exchange, declared bankruptcy following a hacking attack on its own site.
Just last week, Flexcoin asserted its strength in the Bitcoin industry. “We hold zero coins in other companies, exchanges, etc.,” the site said in a tweet last week. “While the Mt. Gox closure is unfortunate, we at Flexcoin have not lost anything.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104400/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-shuts-down-after-massive-theft.html
Flexcoin was attacked and robbed March 2 of all coins in its “hot wallet”—a term that refers to bitcoin online storage—the site said in an announcement posted to its homepage. The attacker made off with 896 bitcoins, which at current prices across several exchanges would amount to roughly $600,000.
Flexcoin also said it will return to their owners the bitcoins it had put in “cold storage,” which weren’t stolen because they’re held offline.
The company will shut down immediately because it does not have the resources or assets to recuperate from the loss, it said. Flexcoin will work with law enforcement to determine the origins of the attack.
Flexcoin directs affected users to its terms of service. According to that document, Flexcoin transactions were carried out using HTTPS encryption but the company “is not responsible for insuring any bitcoins stored in the Flexcoin system.”
Users should also monitor the company’s Twitter account for updates about the situation, according to Flexcoin. In its most recent Twitter message, posted Tuesday, the company announced it would be “shutting its doors” and provided a link to its homepage.
Flexcoin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Flexcoin’s closure comes less than a week after Mt. Gox, a prominent Bitcoin exchange, declared bankruptcy following a hacking attack on its own site.
Just last week, Flexcoin asserted its strength in the Bitcoin industry. “We hold zero coins in other companies, exchanges, etc.,” the site said in a tweet last week. “While the Mt. Gox closure is unfortunate, we at Flexcoin have not lost anything.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104400/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-shuts-down-after-massive-theft.html
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