South Korean crypto exchange Coinrail hacked, temporarily shuts down

South Korean Coinrail was hacked over the weekend and reportedly lost about 30% of the coins traded on the exchange, which caused a sharp drop in the prices of Bitcoin and other digital currencies. The exchange temporarily suspends operations to fully cooperate with investigators in tracking down the missing funds.

Coinrail confirmed the “cyber intrusion” in a statement, but did not quantify the value of stolen coins. Nonetheless, the loss is estimated at about 40 billion won (£27.8m).

Is it possible to identify the missing coins and exclude them from further trading?

There’s more to these stories we don’t hear. It’s sad😞

For sure. And it’s kind of disturbing too.