⚠ ⚠ CRYPTOPIA EXCHANGE HACKED! -- REALTIME INVESTIGATION THREAD ⚠ ⚠

libert19

hero member

Activity: 2520

Merit: 952

Quote from: oppo070 on January 31, 2019, 04:00:27 AM

That's the real risk in crypto, just choosing an exchange without considering its security and safety will be risky as it is prone to hackers and frauds. Maybe the owner or the developers might expose the vulnerability of it that results to that kind of worse situation in the mean time.

Cryptopia was well known exchange. You know nothing is perfect, even if you have top tier security there is chance for breach.

'never put your funds on exchange' — if you want to keep your funds safe, this line is enough.

oppo070

copper member

Activity: 140

Merit: 0

WWW.BLOCKCHAIN021.COM

That's the real risk in crypto, just choosing an exchange without considering its security and safety will be risky as it is prone to hackers and frauds. Maybe the owner or the developers might expose the vulnerability of it that results to that kind of worse situation in the mean time.

libert19

hero member

Activity: 2520

Merit: 952

Quote from: freigeist on January 30, 2019, 12:54:18 PM

Quote from: libert19 on January 30, 2019, 08:26:53 AM

Quote from: keanne_isaac on January 30, 2019, 08:22:32 AM

This is the downside in crypto currency exchange since it is not regulated yet the security of each exchange varies and not standardized which became prone to be hack if your exchange is not that fully secured and the investors are the one carrying the burden everytime this happen i hope they can fix this and we can fet all our coins there. Sad

So sad this happen in this bearish market. ;(

Your coins are not there anymore, cryptopia team has lost access to private keys, keys are in possession of hackers.

Is this related only ethereum and ethereum tokens or all other coins keys were stolen too?
It seems there are not any news about other coins!

I'd assume all. But, since some coins/tokens were only available on cryptopia and not on any other exchange, hackers couldn't sell them.

Edit: Only ethereum private keys were compromised.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-new-zealand-cryptopia-exchange-hack-continues

kramchers

full member

Activity: 854

Merit: 101

Quote from: tamango on January 30, 2019, 07:31:34 AM

Another hacked exchange.... I didn't notice this news before... that's why I don't leave my coins on any exchange.... most of them will be hacked soon it's just a matter of time..

Seriously? Many people are just waiting nad not having a panic attack.
Even me i am calm and waiting for a good news and believing that everything will be okay in the near future.
By the way i do have more than 10K USD on that exchange but still feels okay. be calm

puremage111

hero member

Activity: 1568

Merit: 511

To be honest, could police or governance agencies help in such case?
Digital assets are hardly track able isn't it?

I mean even if you could track where it goes and etc, how do you prove that the hacker is the "real hacker" of the coins?
Seems confusing there

freigeist

hero member

Activity: 1110

Merit: 534

Quote from: libert19 on January 30, 2019, 08:26:53 AM

Quote from: keanne_isaac on January 30, 2019, 08:22:32 AM

This is the downside in crypto currency exchange since it is not regulated yet the security of each exchange varies and not standardized which became prone to be hack if your exchange is not that fully secured and the investors are the one carrying the burden everytime this happen i hope they can fix this and we can fet all our coins there. Sad

So sad this happen in this bearish market. ;(

Your coins are not there anymore, cryptopia team has lost access to private keys, keys are in possession of hackers.

Is this related only ethereum and ethereum tokens or all other coins keys were stolen too?
It seems there are not any news about other coins!

libert19

hero member

Activity: 2520

Merit: 952

Quote from: keanne_isaac on January 30, 2019, 08:22:32 AM

This is the downside in crypto currency exchange since it is not regulated yet the security of each exchange varies and not standardized which became prone to be hack if your exchange is not that fully secured and the investors are the one carrying the burden everytime this happen i hope they can fix this and we can fet all our coins there. Sad

So sad this happen in this bearish market. ;(

Your coins are not there anymore, cryptopia team has lost access to private keys, keys are in possession of hackers.

keanne_isaac

full member

Activity: 392

Merit: 103

www.daxico.com

This is the downside in crypto currency exchange since it is not regulated yet the security of each exchange varies and not standardized which became prone to be hack if your exchange is not that fully secured and the investors are the one carrying the burden everytime this happen i hope they can fix this and we can fet all our coins there. Sad

So sad this happen in this bearish market. ;(

Anatolich

member

Activity: 574

Merit: 10

Hmm, we go from the stock exchange to the stock exchange, and nowhere are there any guarantees. Cold wallet is what you need. As for cryptopia, the bag does not seem to be big, and the noise is not so much. Although it seems that this happens only for panic, this is how everyone now believes that btc will go to 2k.

Red-Apple

hero member

Activity: 1470

Merit: 655

Quote from: BitGrind3r on January 27, 2019, 10:36:14 AM

Quote from: TooDumbForBitcoin on January 26, 2019, 06:29:38 AM

Quote from: overnight03 on January 23, 2019, 10:38:51 AM

I have never traded on CRYPTOPIA exchange, we should trade on reliable exchanges such as binance, OKEx ... it will be safer and the percentage of being attacked and losing money is very low

In fact any centralized exchange can be hacked because of human factors. For example binance kyc's docs leak was confirmed recently https://www.ccn.com/dark-web-hacker-proves-leak-of-customer-data-from-worlds-leading-cryptocurrency-exchanges/

well it's not confirmed unless you see logs of the hack.

most of the KYC documents on the darknet is not from Binance, they are instead coming from Bittrex which sold them on the dark markets and then pretended their system had a weakness which led to the leakage of the personal data of their users.

tamango

full member

Activity: 602

Merit: 100

Another hacked exchange.... I didn't notice this news before... that's why I don't leave my coins on any exchange.... most of them will be hacked soon it's just a matter of time..

5thFear

full member

Activity: 1260

Merit: 102

Oh my Gawwwddd. I had around $5 worth of tokens there. They would have hacked it for my tokens. On a serious note, there are lot of exchanges that don't work on their security and its the clients who has to suffer.

Script3d

hero member

Activity: 1232

Merit: 503

Cryptopia should investigate their employees, even the former ones, this would likely a inside job, it's really hard for hackers to get into exchange without knowing any weakness of the system. i hope cryptopia solve their problem ASAP.

another possibility is this

Quote

People. @Cryptopia_NZ didn't get hacked *again*. The nature of the compromise is, the attacker stole their ETH privkey and deleted topia's copy.
Same hack, just new histrionic-newsable point to steal your attention if you never learned the basics of how private keys work.

twitter.com/notsofast/status/1090280631077167105

dikobraz123

member

Activity: 88

Merit: 24

The drama continues:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-new-zealand-cryptopia-exchange-hack-continues

BitGrind3r

copper member

Activity: 28

Merit: 0

Quote from: TooDumbForBitcoin on January 26, 2019, 06:29:38 AM

Quote from: overnight03 on January 23, 2019, 10:38:51 AM

I have never traded on CRYPTOPIA exchange, we should trade on reliable exchanges such as binance, OKEx ... it will be safer and the percentage of being attacked and losing money is very low

In fact any centralized exchange can be hacked because of human factors. For example binance kyc's docs leak was confirmed recently https://www.ccn.com/dark-web-hacker-proves-leak-of-customer-data-from-worlds-leading-cryptocurrency-exchanges/

well it's not confirmed unless you see logs of the hack.

TooDumbForBitcoin

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 1001

Quote from: overnight03 on January 23, 2019, 10:38:51 AM

I have never traded on CRYPTOPIA exchange, we should trade on reliable exchanges such as binance, OKEx ... it will be safer and the percentage of being attacked and losing money is very low

In fact any centralized exchange can be hacked because of human factors. For example binance kyc's docs leak was confirmed recently https://www.ccn.com/dark-web-hacker-proves-leak-of-customer-data-from-worlds-leading-cryptocurrency-exchanges/

BitGrind3r

copper member

Activity: 28

Merit: 0

An user received a presumed response from NZ police asking for his details. Phishing or legit?

https://twitter.com/lashakurashvili/status/1088660357521047552

makerst

sr. member

Activity: 728

Merit: 252

The news is really very terrible, but as far as I understand it is generally predictable, it seems to me that only those people who publicly appear in public have real guarantees that the stock exchange will not be hacked.

pawanjain

hero member

Activity: 2702

Merit: 716

Nothing lasts forever

Seems like the exchange really got hacked. I just logged in today to transfer a few tokens to some other place just to find out that the exchange has already been taken down by the New Zealand Police department.
I first thought that the exchange has run away with all our money but I guess the NZ police announcement on the exchange seems legit. Whatever it is, there is no option for us to act upon.
The only thing we can do is wait and watch the show. I personally don't think that we will be getting our money back because this is how Bitconnect, MtGox and other popular exchanges went down.
Things like this keep happening in crypto and this is the reason why the experts say not to put the money on an exchange for a long time.

overnight03

member

Activity: 308

Merit: 10

I have never traded on CRYPTOPIA exchange, we should trade on reliable exchanges such as binance, OKEx ... it will be safer and the percentage of being attacked and losing money is very low

Topic: ⚠ ⚠ CRYPTOPIA EXCHANGE HACKED! -- REALTIME INVESTIGATION THREAD ⚠ ⚠ (Read 742 times)