{"id":71958,"date":"2022-12-26T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71958"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:06:45","slug":"bit-minings-btc-com-mining-pool-hit-by-a-3-million-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bit-minings-btc-com-mining-pool-hit-by-a-3-million-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"BIT Mining&#8217;s BTC.com mining pool hit by a $3 million cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company BIT Mining Limited said a cyberattack affected its BTC.com pool. The incident occurred on December 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/bit-mining-limited-subsidiary-experiences-cyberattack-301709947.html\">\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the cyberattack, certain cryptocurrencies were stolen, including BTC.com client assets worth about $700,000 and about $2.3 million belonging to the company,\u201d BIT Mining Limited clarified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Company representatives emphasized that they reported the incident to Shenzhen police (China). On December 23, authorities began the investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAfter identifying this cyberattack, the company implemented measures to improve protection against hackers. BTC.com is currently operating normally,\u201d said the pool owner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Immunefi notes, in the third quarter the crypto industry&#8217;s cumulative losses from hacks and scams<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-industry-loses-428-million-in-q3-to-hacks-and-scams\"> amounted to $428.7 million<\/a>, according to Immunefi. Of 39 incidents, 30 were hacker attacks with total damages of $399 million.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company BIT Mining Limited said a cyberattack affected its BTC.com pool. The incident occurred on December 3, according to a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1713,856,1154],"class_list":["post-71958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bit-mining-limited","tag-btc-com","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71958","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=71958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71960,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71958\/revisions\/71960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}