Unknown attackers left a message on the site of the recently hacked Livecoin exchange demanding a ransom in bitcoins.
Data: Livecoin.net.
“Nice try, Livecoin. But no… You have two days left,” the message said.
The same page lists a Bitcoin address to which the cryptocurrency must be transferred. As of writing, one unconfirmed transaction for 0.00004512 BTC had been sent to it.
Update: Twitter users said that Livecoin’s support email is unavailable:
“The message was not delivered, as the address support@livecoin.net was not found or not accepting incoming mail.”
Earlier, on December 24, the price of Bitcoin on Livecoin surged to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and withdrawals from the platform became unavailable.
At the same time, CEO Svetlana Geller deleted her Telegram account. Users speculated that the platform’s founders committed an exit scam.
Later, a message appeared on the site indicating that the exchange had been subjected to a “carefully planned attack,” and that the administration had completely lost control of the servers, backend and nodes.
According to preliminary estimates, unknown actors stole 106 BTC, 361 ETH and 236 BCH.
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