Denmark based Bitcoin company BIPS (Bitcoin Internet Payment System) has come under fire from a distributed denial of service attack several days earlier. The attackers managed to gain access to BIPS servers and compromised several customers Bitcoin wallets. BIPS will temporarily close down its consumer wallet initiative to focus on real-time merchant processing business which does not include storing Bitcoins. Users affected by the security breach will be contacted and BIPS help desk system will not be re-enabled until an alternative hosting solution has been arranged for this.”]
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