Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Bitfinex
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: Bitfinex, a Bitcoin wallet, announces to have been hacked, and asks all customers to cease depositing cryptocurrency to old deposits addresses. The impact of the breach is relatively small (0.5% of total funds).