What happened to the Bitstamp remains a mystery. No hacker group claimed the attack to compromise servers, and Bitcoin is notoriously difficult to track.
The Bitstamp tried to reassure their customers, saying the invasion only affected its ‘operational portfolio’ containing “a small customer bitcoins fraction ‘. Is that most of the coins are stored in servers without an Internet connection. The currency exchange not yet returned to work.
Last year, the CEO of Bitstamp referred to his company as “the backbone of the entire Bitcoin industry ‘. If it is really true, the attack shows that the Bitcoin may be safe, but the exchange houses are vulnerable
About a year, Mt. Gox. – Then the largest currency exchange for Bitcoins – disappeared with the money of users, about 450 million dollars. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, said that some users have taken advantage of a flaw that allowed receive the same coin several times.
However, a Japanese newspaper says that 99% of bitcoins disappeared from Mt. Gox as a result of ‘handling of the internal system’
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