IS IT RIGHT THAT BTC-E GOT HACKED
BTC-e is considered as a "Big Four" bitcoin exchange in the world, with market for trading between bitcoins and other currencies, including the U.S. dollar, Russian ruble and other cryptocurrencies Its been 25 hours now that the site is still down . The latest update on their tweet " We are still continue to perform our unscheduled ongoing maintenance. Will keep you updated. Sorry for the inconvenience ".
“Already many rumors, about massive hack or fraud, with some btc accounts dumping hundreds of millions of USD in bitcoin today”.
Tran Trung Kien, a Vietnamese trader, showed his frustration "And while BTC-E is "down", some $169M bitcoin fortune is on it's laundering way via hundreds of wallets" has been published on 247BTC ".Some said it is exit scam
Yet another example of why you should not keep your cryptocurrency on an exchange for any length of time. Keep them in your own wallet for storage and only shift them to an exchange for the time needed to sell or trade.
It sucks. I keep half of my investment on BTC-e
This is surely bad news but there is no formal confirmation yet that BTC-E has indeed been hacked.
We will simply have to wait for formal confirmation by BTC-E whether there was a hack.