Another blow to Cryptopia users as exchange is unlikely to reopen
Customers of the debt-ridden New Zealand exchange will have to wait until the investigation into the hack is completed before they can get their assets back.
Customers of the debt-ridden New Zealand exchange will have to wait until the investigation into the hack is completed before they can get their assets back.
New Zealand-based Cryptopia is closing after filing for bankruptcy, several months after the crypto exchange was hit with a $15 million hack.
Co-founder Rob Dawson categorically denies that an exit scam took place, and points out that Cryptopia actually plans on reopening. For now, the crypto exchange has resumed trading on 40 various crypto trading pairs.
After several false signals and delays, Cryptopia exchange has finally gone live again, but still has work to do.
New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia has revealed more details on the hack it suffered in January, suggesting as much as 9.4% of the firm’s entire holdings had been stolen.
The New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia was given permission to resume its operations following a hack in January that saw around $16 million in digital assets stolen.
Police in New Zealand have given the green light to Cryptopia exchange to reopen "whenever they want." But for some reason, they still haven’t.
The hack of the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, that began in January, saw millions of dollars in digital assets stolen.
New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia realized that it was under attack by hackers. It moved to thwart the theft of assets, but not until after approximately $3.65 million in Ether (ETH) and Centrality had been lifted off the platform.
In the wake of the hack of the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia more than a week ago, the lack of information is starting to worry some people that the hack was bigger than reported.
The Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange out of New Zealand became the most recent target of hackers. By the time the attack was discovered, thieves had reportedly been able to get away with Ether and Centrality tokens amounting to as much as $3.65 million.
The scale of the attack remains unclear for the time being, though there is the suggestion that as many as 19,931 ETH and 48 million Centrality (CENNZ) tokens could have been moved from the exchange, totaling in the region of US$3.65 million.