The site of the British crypto-electronic start-up Electroneum, which managed to collect about $ 40 million (? 30 million) during the fundraising fund raising campaign and the ICO procedure (Initial Coin Offering), was subjected to a cyber attack.

Electroneum - crypto currency, which is offered to be produced using smartphones. According to representatives of Electroneum, the project will allow ordinary users to mine the crypto currency by analogy with the etherium and bitkoyn, using programs that require much less computing power.

The launch of the official site and the mobile application for mining was scheduled for Thursday, but it had to be postponed due to the DDoS attack.

In the course of work to restore the normal operation of the service more than 140 thousand. users could not log in to their accounts.

Crypto currency Electroneum gained popularity last month after the famous football coach Harry Redknapp (Harry Redknapp) announced his interest in this project.

According to the representatives of Electroneum on Twitter, the technical support team does everything possible to resume the service as soon as possible.