The fourth largest virtual currency trading platform was hacked, leaving many people losing bitcoin and ethereum

Things began to reveal when on Tuesday, South Korean users, taking up the largest number of user base, began complaining about the network connection that they lost control of large amounts of money on Bithumb accounts. One day later, the company officially admitted on the website about the leak but did not provide any further details.

The attacker hacked Bithumb's computer staff

On Monday, everything became clearer when pressured by press, the company revealed that the attack took place after an unknown hacker hacked a Bithumb employee's personal computer, from then on. Steals information of more than 31,800 Bithumb users, equivalent to about 3% of the user base of the entire system.

According to local media, the attack took place around 22:00 local time, on Thursday June 29, and the document the hacker tried to access contained data including customer names, email addresses and phone numbers. phone.

Soon after, Bithumb users started complaining online that someone was withdrawing their account. It is still unclear how this hacker took control of the victim account.

Bithumb trading platform has been stolen by hackers with an unspecified amount of money

Some users report a loss of up to 10 million won ($ 8,700) of virtual money. Local newspapers estimated that the hacker had stolen billions of won in virtual currency, but Bithumb did not confirm the exact number of lost money.

Bithumb promises to compensate users

According to the article on Monday, the trading floor does not seem to know the exact amount of money lost. However, they said that they would be willing to cover up to a maximum of 100,000 won ($ 897) for each affected user until the end of July 5. 'As soon as we confirm the lost amount, we will compensate the entire damage,' Bithumb said in an official statement.

According to users' complaints, hackers steal both Bitcoin and Ethereum from their accounts. Not only is the fourth largest virtual money trading platform, Bithumb is also the second largest Ethereum transaction on the Internet.

Bithumb told the Korean press that they had contacted police last week and announced the theft. Two months ago, an anonymous attacker also hacked the Bitcoin trading platform Yapizon of Korea and stole 3816.2028 Bitcoin (over $ 5.5 million).

This is not the only Ethereum-related hack in the past week. Last Thursday, an unknown hacker took control of the web domain of Classic Ether Wallet, an e-wallet system for customers of virtual money Ethereum Classic (ETC). Hackers created fake websites and used it to steal user password information and redirect ETC transactions.