{"id":31847,"date":"2020-11-16T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31847"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:44:16","slug":"nicehash-to-repay-100-of-bitcoins-stolen-in-the-2017-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/nicehash-to-repay-100-of-bitcoins-stolen-in-the-2017-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"NiceHash to repay 100% of bitcoins stolen in the 2017 hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud-mining platform NiceHash announced that it would complete its repayment programme to users of bitcoins stolen in the 2017 hack in December.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NiceHash Repayment program \u2014 100% REPAYMENT! \u26a0\ufe0f\u26a0\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6DcJZbdPPG\">https:\/\/t.co\/6DcJZbdPPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NiceHash (@NiceHashMining) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NiceHashMining\/status\/1328266442932883456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In December 2017, an attacker withdrew more than 4,640 BTC from user wallets on the platform, at a time when the price of the cryptocurrency was around $12,000.<\/p>\n<p>On February 2, 2018, the Slovenia-based service began a loss-recovery programme, crediting a portion of the coins to victims of the hack on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of August of that year NiceHash said it had already refunded 60% of the lost assets to customers.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2019 the platform suspended the programme. NiceHash noted that repayments were funded from platform fees, reducing its revenue. The decision to pause the programme was explained as necessary to preserve cash flow sufficient to continue operations.<\/p>\n<p>At that time the recovery rate stood at 82%. NiceHash did not provide a timeline for resuming the payout of assets.<\/p>\n<p>The platform said it would reimburse 100% of the bitcoins lost by users on December 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the FBI charged NiceHash founder Matja\u017e \u0160korjanc with extortion and bank fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud-mining platform NiceHash announced that it would complete its repayment programme to users of bitcoins stolen in the 2017 hack in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2026],"class_list":["post-31847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-nicehash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31849,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions\/31849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}