Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: NiceHash
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Bitcoin mining platform and exchange NiceHash is hacked and forced to suspend the operations for 24 hours after cyber criminals make off with $68 million worth in BTC.