Coinbase: Victim of a Major Hacker Attack, 6000 AccountS Stolen From

[ValeryN]

all they needed was the user’s pass, email and phone number

The way it's described implies its an easy task to get those. Those users with stolen accounts are idiots to begin with.

 

[HolyGrailSeeker]

It is better to lose the inflation on fiat money. Still better than to lose everything in crypto's.
If even the big players like Coinbase are not safe, you start to hesitate about the security.
I never hear these kind of things with fiat money.
I could fill a book with all the stories from stolen crypto's. And a next one with all people that lost money in the "vault of value" crypto's.

Not your keys not your bitcoin. Don't store your cryptos in your exchange.

 

[maxinger]

absolutely nothing will scare away the cryptocurrency investors.
No matter what the Chinese authority or the hackers do,
the price will keep on going up.

Now investors know the pattern :

bad news ----> a few days later, the price will go up massively

now BTC is at 56000 and is on the way to the moon, Mars ....

 

[johnarb]

now BTC is at 56000 and is on the way to the moon, Mars ....

Btc is only $54,600 at the moment

Not everyone sees it the same way as you

Many here on ET were calling for a bitcoin crash to $20K and even $10K and lower a few months ago

 

[mlawson71]

Well, the hack did not faze them all that much. They recently issued a statement that they are increasing the size of their debt offering to roughly 2 billion USD from the previously announced 1.5 billion USD, because of stronger then expected market interest.

The proceeds of the offering are expected to be used for product development and eventual mergers and acquisitions, becomes evident by notes published by the company.