Poloniex exchange canceled part of user transactions

The platform deleted 12 minutes from the trading history, including operations to buy and sell cryptocurrency.Inferencefunds temporarily suspended.

Exchange Poloniex canceled and erased from historyoperations that took place within 12 minutes on February 10, from 20:53 to 21:05 Moscow time. The reason for this was an error in the execution of orders, as the trading platform reported in its Twitter account.

To address any inaccurate accounting the bugcaused, we are rolling back 12 minutes of trade history, from 17:53 UTC to 18:05 UTC on February 10, 2020. Any orders that were placed or executed during this time have been removed from the system.

— Poloniex Customer Support (@PoloSupport) February 10, 2020

“We discovered a bug that a certain timeled to erroneous execution of orders ... to eliminate the error that occurred, we rolled back the 12-minute trading history for February 10, 2020, from 17:53 UTC to 18:05 UTC (20:53 - 21:05 Moscow time). All orders that were placed or executed during this period were deleted from the system, ”wrote representatives of Poloniex.

To eliminate the error, the exchange temporarily went toMaintenance. At the moment, trading has resumed, but cryptocurrency withdrawal is still unavailable. All users whose transactions could be canceled were notified by mail.

At the end of December, Poloniex leaked customer data. Email addresses and passwords of some users of the exchange were found on the Internet in the public domain.

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