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When the Canary Stops: New Bitcoin Mining Hack a Wake-Up Call?

Norwegian mining service Cloudminr.io was hacked by a group of unknown attackers. The site offered to sell its database of 80,000 accounts for just one bitcoin, or around $240. This isn’t the first problem encountered by the virtual currency and won’t be the last, but the mining disaster points to a canary thats kicked the bucket and a market that may not be ready for nonstandard funds. Users underground too busy digging deep to notice that their canary is deathly silent.”]

Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/when-the-canary-stops-new-bitcoin-mining-hack-a-wake-up-call/

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