On the afternoon of July 25, the BTC-E homepage, large virtual currency trading floor in the world with a very high level of security has stopped operating.
On the BTC-E Twitter page, a company representative posted the status, "Due to some data center issues, the BTC-E may temporarily be down."
The nearest status line posted 10 hours ago mentions that the BTC-E is still undergoing maintenance. At the time of this post, the situation has not improved.
Currently, there is no official information from the BTC-E executives on hacker attacks. Duc Nguyen (Dak Lak), a person on the floor said that this floor is subject to DDOS (service denial of service attacks - PV), causing overloading the home page.
In early June, the exchange also revealed on Twitter the same situation, when a large number of users access, affecting the execution time of its transaction. In 2012, this floor has also been stolen 4,500 BTC by hackers.
At the same time BTC-E stops working, a Bitcoin purse at Blockchain at the same time receives and transmits nearly 66,000 BTC, equivalent to $ 165 million. According to Duc Nguyen, "this is a split account, but it is not clear whether the BTC-E division or personal account hacked, all the information is not yet officially, waiting for answers From this floor representative ".
BTC-E was established in 2011 with the ability to trade, convert Bitcoin, ETH, Litecoin and other virtual currencies into dollars, euros, rubles. The floor supports 3 languages: English, Russian, Chinese. This is considered a major trading platform in the world with very high security, however information about the founder behind the floor is still unknown.
After two major virtual money thefts last week, the security of the virtual currency trading floors is being seriously threatened by hackers. Participants should have the knowledge and the means to protect themselves.
is under maintenance
Yes,still being maintained