VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
Root cause
Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Forensic narrative
Nicehash appears to have shuttered their website with a notice saying “a security breach involving NiceHash website” and “our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen”. Attack method (per SlowMist): Unknown. Reported loss: 4,736.42 BTC.
Primary source
http://archive.is/pWTbH ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- bitcoin
- protocol
- Nicehash
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2017-12-08
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:nicehash::2017-12-08
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