March 28, 2024

Cryptocurrency Livecoin is closed after a hack

After a message about the attack in December last year, the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin announced the closure of its services.

Bthe official statement says that the platform is notcan carry on its activities, since the break-in affected its technical and financial capabilities. One Birzhi team promised that it would return all media to its customers.

At the present time, it is unclear how much the means was lost in the result of the predicted hack and how much will be returned to the users.

It is believed that the hacker attack occurred at the endlast year, when bitcoin traded above $ 20,000. As a result, the control over a number of servers was not lost, and the users received a notice to keep from using the services of the cryptocurrency exchange.

Possibly, hackers managed to upgrade about 106 BTC, 2Z6 BCH, Z80 ETH, 66.8 million DOGE, 567,012 XRP and an unknown number of ERC-20 and USDT tokens.

It is not excluded that a large number of Ethereum were converted to DAI on the decentralized exchange Uniswap. In addition, most of it was transferred to the auction of the KuCoin cryptocurrency.

Consistent with official information, up to 17 Marchclients can apply for a return of the media. At the same time, they were warned about the activity of the scammers who could issue themselves as members of the Livecoin team.

«Don’t send money to anyone. You don't need to pay to receive your funds from us, the only thing you need to do is submit a request and follow a simple procedure.

It is also recommended to receive all official messages only from Livecoin.news, one email address specified on the new media channel.

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