Bitcoin Heist Adds $77 Million To Total Hacked Hauls Of $15 Billion
A “highly professional” heist sucked millions dollars in bitcoin out of Slovenian website NiceHash, the latest in a series of big cryptocurrency thefts.
Slovenian website NiceHash, which lets users buy and sell computer time for mining cryptocurrency, lost about $77 million when its payment system was hacked in a “highly professional” heist, it told Reuters. In total, about 980,000 bitcoins, worth about $15 billion in today’s skyrocketing prices, have been stolen from exchanges over the currency’s lifetime, the wire service estimates.