Nicehash, a famous mining pool seems to have been hacked, according to online data, a good 56 million USD worth of BitCoin seems to have disappeared overnight. While unconfirmed, it seems 4700+ BTC has gone missing and all NH mining pools are offline.
NiceHash is one of the more popular solutions thanks to an easy interface and its usability, by downloading a small application and associating your BTC address, you are good to go. Users mention that their wallets have been emptied and the bitcoins are now in a wallet that received 4736 bitcoins on Wednesday, currently, that entails a total value of 51 million euros, roughly 56 million USD.
The service has been showing a mysterious maintenance notification for the entire day already, according to some rumors coming from expert users of the pool and blogger steemit mention it seems possible that NiceHash has been the victim of one of the biggest hacks ever seen on such a platform. At the following link, there is the "main" address of NiceHash that shows the zeroing in the early morning of the total, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, if the user's wallets have been emptied, this will be amounting to almost 56 million dollars, and that seems to have been transferred towards one BTC address.
Many people are very worried since official confirmation is still lacking, a possible hack remains unconfirmed. Bitcoin reached 12,000 dollars per Bitcoin today.
Update: the CEO of NiceHash just posted the following and confirms that their website indeed has been compromised:
Unfortunately, there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website. We are currently investigating the nature of the incident and, as a result, we are stopping all operations for the next 24 hours.
Importantly, our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen. We are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken.
Clearly, this is a matter of deep concern and we are working hard to rectify the matter in the coming days. In addition to undertaking our own investigation, the incident has been reported to the relevant authorities and law enforcement and we are co-operating with them as a matter of urgency. We are fully committed to restoring the NiceHash service with the highest security measures at the earliest opportunity.
We would not exist without our devoted buyers and miners all around the globe. We understand that you will have a lot of questions, and we ask for patience and understanding while we investigate the causes and find the appropriate solutions for the future of the service. We will endeavor to update you at regular intervals. While the full scope of what happened is not yet known, we recommend, as a precaution, that you change your online passwords.
We are truly sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused and are committing every resource towards solving this issue as soon as possible.
Source: Twitter
