“Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame on me.” –Chinese Proverb.
BTER has the following statement on its website:
7170 BTC got stolen from our cold wallet in this transaction:
https://blockchain.info/tx/f5b0363f03e1ed8bb812c135361ea93590c831ce9f13a3750be1b93575baccc6
720 BTC bounty for chasing it back.
All wallets have been shut down and withdrawals of the unaffected coins will be arranged later.
BTER.com
Email:support@mail.bter.com
Phone:400-0070-955
QQ: 4000070955
With transactions frozen, some are claiming an inside job. This comes in the wake of another recent hack, where BTER lost about $1.65M of NXT. The outcome for that incident was a bit more favorable – the exchange was able to negotiate for the return of a partial amount.
How many others are like me – have some coin at BTER, and forgot, or was too lazy to move them after the first hack? Probably in denial, I justified it as an NXT issue. But that was the wake up call and now – shame on BTER – and me.
