Aν και ήταν γνωστά τα προβλήματα που αντιμετώπιζε στις συναλλαγές του εδώ και μήνες το ανταλλακτήριο ψηφιακών νομισμάτων Cryptsy τελικά σήμερα ανακοινώθηκε και επίσημα η χρεωκοπία του που όπως γράφουν οφείλετε κυρίως σε μια μεγάλη επίθεση που δέχθηκαν πριν ενάμιση χρόνο από hacker και που είχε ως αποτέλεσμα να χαθούν 15.000 Bitcoin αξίας 7.5 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων και 300.000 Litecoin αξίας παραπάνω από 2 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων.

Cryptsy has had problems for some time now and it’s time to let everybody know exactly why. These problems were NOT because of any recent phishing attacks, or even a ddos attack, nor does it have anything to do with me personally.

About a year and a half ago, we were alerted in the early AM of a reduction in our safe/cold wallet balances of Bitcoin and Litecoin, as well as a couple other smaller cryptocurrencies. After a period of time of investigation it was found that the developer of Lucky7Coin had placed an IRC backdoor into the code of wallet, which allowed it to act as a sort of a Trojan, or command and control unit. This Trojan had likely been there for months before it was able to collect enough information to perform the attack.