Take a Good Care of Your Wallet
There are tons of hackers all around the world. And also they are the reason why some businesses were going down to the ground. For example was one of the dominant and most popular trading platforms, Mt. Gox. Since Mt. Gox was one of the most popular its downfall remarks as one of the most unforgettable in the trading market industry.
“One of the largest bitcoin exchanges, Mt. Gox suspended withdrawals citing technical issues in early February 2014. At the end of the month Mt. Gox had filed for their bankruptcy protection in Japan with amid reports of 744, 000 bitcoins had been stolen. Mt, Gox had once been the dominant bitcoin exchange but its popularity had waned as users experienced difficulties withdrawing their funds.”
Recently, a shocking announcement from the CoinWallet.co which is one of the trading platform today which stating the closure of its platform primarily because it has e experienced a breached of data last April 6, 2016.
The company quoted: “This incident prompted us to reassess the viability of running coinwallet.co and it was decided it is just not viable taking into consideration the risk, costs and time involved.”
And for the record, it was the same hacker who has hacked and sells the data of more than 164 LinkedIn million users, more over 360 million e-mails and passwords of MySpace users, which have set the largest leaks of passwords in the entire World Wide Web history. Some of the other data that has been hacked was offered for sale online.
The next record of breaking in was the users of German service which may we have called the TeamViewer, their system allows the customers to log into their computers remotely. A report stated that someone had access a large amount of their valuable accounts such as e-mails, bank and even PayPal accounts.
Even hundreds of Spotify account credentials were not excluded to the hacks which substantiate the emails, usernames, passwords, account types and other details of the accounts were even posted at Pastebin.
This number of these incidents had alarmed the trading platforms in the world, which have aimed to tighten and heightened the security and had become a priority of safety. The two-factor authentication had been a great help. The method of strengthened a mechanism with another safety measures program which enables the watertight protection.
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