To Bitstamp ανοίγει ξανά

Το Bitstamp από σήμερα άρχισε ξανά την λειτουργία του μετά από μέρες παύσης των συναλλαγών ώστε να κάνει έλεγχο και αναβάθμιση στα συστήματα ασφαλείας του. Πλέον στην κεντρική τους σελίδα υπάρχει ανακοίνωση που δίνει μια πρώτη εξήγηση για τις αιτίες που οδήγησαν στην απώλεια των 19.000 bitcoin από hackers καθώς και σε ποιες αναβαθμίσεις προχώρησαν στα συστήματα τους.

Dear Bitstamp customers,

We are happy to announce that we are back open for business with a newly redeployed website and backend systems that are safer and more secure than ever. Thank you for your patience during our temporary disruption of services this week. We’d like to share with our customers and community an update on the events of this week.

WHAT HAPPENED?

On January 4th, some of Bitstamp’s operational wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of less than 19,000 BTC. This breach represents a small fraction of Bitstamp’s total bitcoin reserves, the overwhelming majority of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We can assure customers that any bitcoins held with us prior to temporary suspension of services on January 5th at 9am UTC are completely safe and will be fully honored.

Upon learning of the breach, we immediately notified all customers that they should no longer make deposits to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses. As an additional security measure, we suspended our systems to fully investigate the incident and actively engage with law enforcement officials.

We took the decision to rebuild our systems from the ground up from a secure backup for a few reasons. By redeploying our system from a secure backup onto entirely new hardware, we were able to preserve the evidence for a full forensic investigation of the crime. We have also taken this time to implement a number of new security measures and protocols so that customers can resume using Bitstamp with full confidence and trust. While this decision means we have not been able to provide you with services for a number of days, we feel this extra measure of precaution was in the best interest of our customers.

 

 

Το ανταλλακτήριο όπως ανακοινώθηκε θα προσφέρει από εδώ και στο εξής στους πελάτες του multi-sig wallets ενώ οι συναλλαγές μέχρι και τις 17 του μήνα θα γίνονται χωρίς καμία προμήθεια.

Οι server του Bitstamp πλέον θα τρέχουν στις υποδομές τις Amazon’s world-class AWS cloud