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Hackers target Livecoin and change cryptocurrency exchange prices
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Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has been hacked, with hackers managing to change the rates of cryptocurrencies traded on the service to earn quick profits.
The hack took place over the night of Dec. 23-24. The exchange posted on its site Christmas Eve that the service was subject to a “carefully planned attack” that it suggested may have been planned “over the last few months.”
In the hack, the company lost control over all its servers, back ends and nodes along with “new channels,” presumably referring to social media accounts. Clients were asked to stop using the service, including not depositing funds, trading or using the site’s application programming interface.
Customer funds stolen in hack of UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO
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U.K.-registered cryptocurrency exchange EXMO Exchange Ltd. has been hacked and the equivalent of about $10 million in customer cryptocurrency was stolen.
The hack on the exchange, which is popular in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan was detected Monday and primarily involved the theft of bitcoin but also XRP, Zcash, USDT, Ethereum Classic and Ethereum from customer hot wallets, those that are readily accessible.
An investigation by EXMO is still underway but the company has been transparent in providing updates and details to customers. In an update early Dec. 23 U.K. time, EXMO wrote Monday that the amount stolen due to the hack makes up about 6% of the company’s total assets.