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The breach represented "a small fraction" of its
total bitcoin reserve and the majority was held in secure
offline cold storage systems, Bitstamp posted on its website on
Tuesday. (http://bit.ly/1eTIPEt)
The Slovenia-based firm – which said on Monday it believed one
of its operational wallets had been compromised – did not give
further details on the breach.
Bitstamp said on Tuesday it had notified all customers after
learning of the breach, requesting them not to make any deposits
to previously issued bitcoin deposit addresses.
"We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their
balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will
not be affected and will be honored in full," the exchange said.
Bitcoin, the best-known virtual currency, started circulating in
2009. Unlike conventional money, bitcoin is generated by
computers and is independent of control or backing by any
government.
In February, Bitstamp claimed that developers had come up with a
solution to thwart cyber attacks against its platform after Mt.
Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, lost an
estimated $650 million worth of customer bitcoin when its faulty
computer system was hacked.
(Reporting By Shivam Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio
D'Souza)
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