Topic: Has Bitstamp actually lost roughly 19000 BTC?!? (Read 1214 times)

They said they lost.

What your doubt?


Do you think they stole from themselves the coins to manipulate the market and to avoid taxes, or something?

today they will start again
i hope they pay all balance of users
i think they will do this..

the loss is ture, there is no any progress about it

I don't think the hacker will be that stupid to sell his bitcoin on the market all at once, but slowly over time after mixing his coins.

*Whistles* that's a lot of bitcoins.  Does Bitstamp have any idea who did it?  If the hacker does sell the bitcoins, it'll probably crash the whole market...

more information from economics area about bitstamp: https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric/status/552615256452001792

"Nejc Kodrič
‏@nejc_kodric
Our redeployment is up internally and is being filled with backup data for testing. Relaunch ETA ~24-48h. Thank you for your patience!"

İf it s true it s not a big problem for Bitstamp
They are very large and big company
if they want solve problem they can pay it easly..

What would be the "right" section?

I am more concerned about:
a. what the thieves are doing with those roughly 5M US$ worth of BTC (and the effect of a sell-off on the market value of BTC); and.
b. what "the community en large" thinks about BTC after "yet another" scam/theft/et cetera... (and what that means for BTC-adaptation).

If stamp takes the hit,  and no one loses, it may help.  Wait and see what they do.

yes， they lost about 18864 bticoin.
here is the address https://blockchain.info/address/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf

I've seen this theft. It's certainly not going to help this bitcoin price either should the hacker dump all his coins.

from Bitsamp's site:

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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO OUR CUSTOMERS:

January 6, 2015, 12:34am UTC: We have temporarily suspended Bitstamp services. Bitstamp customers can rest assured that their bitcoins held with us prior to temporary suspension of services on January 5th (at 9am UTC) are completely safe and will be honored in full.
On January 4th, some of Bitstamp’s operational wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of less than 19,000 BTC. Upon learning of the breach, we immediately notified all customers that they should no longer make deposits to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses. To repeat, customers should NOT make any deposits to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses. As an additional security measure, we suspended our systems while we fully investigate the incident and actively engage with law enforcement officials.
This breach represents a small fraction of Bitstamp’s total bitcoin reserves, the overwhelming majority of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected and will be honored in full.
We appreciate customers’ patience during this disruption of services. We are working to transfer a secure backup of the Bitstamp site onto a new safe environment and will be bringing this online in the coming days. Customers can stay informed via updates on our website, on Twitter (@Bitstamp) and through Bitstamp customer support at [email protected].
- Bitstamp Team

I got this email this morning:


And the whole day the site has been showing this error message:

Has Bitstamp actually lost roughly 19000 BTC 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/bitstamp-bitcoin-exchange-suspended-amid-hack-concerns-heres-what-we-know/
http://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-claims-roughly-19000-btc-lost-hot-wallet-hack/