It is known that the company NiceHash, engaged in the provision of services in the rental of facilities for the mining of crypto-currencies, recently said that hackers hacked their payment system and stole bitcoins (Bitcoin) for $ 70 million. Such a message was recently posted on the company's Facebook page.
It became known that this company then suspended all activities - for 24 hours. The head of the NiceHash department, Andrei Shkraba, noted that about 4,700 people were stolen from the bitcoin purse. bitcoins. At the rate of the crypto currency at 15474 dollars at 15:45 on the seventh of December according to Kiev time (according to the Coin Market Cap) it turns out that they stole bitcoins for $ 70 million.
As reported URA-Inform, the bitcoin rate rose to 15 thousand dollars.