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Someone stole $3 million from Coinsecure Bitcoin exchange

April 13th, 2018 Waqas Cyber Crime 0 comments
Someone stole $3 million from Coinsecure Bitcoin exchange
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In a security notice, the Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has revealed that it has suffered a setback after 438 BTC which is over $3 million ($3,542,957) according to current Bitcoin price were stolen from its offline Bitcoin wallets

The company maintains that it has never been hacked or compromised and the incident took place when its CSO Dr. Amitabh Saxena was extracting BTG (Bitcoin Gold) to distribute to its customers. Saxena, on the other hand, claims that funds were lost in the process during the extraction of the private keys.

The company has launched a complaint with the Cyber Cell in Delhi and is also conducting an investigation with the help of cybersecurity experts. However, a look at the police complaint points to an inside job as the company’s director Mohit Kalra stated in the complaint that:

“As the private keys are kept with Dr. Amitabh Saxena, we feel that he is making a false story to divert our attention and he might have a role to play in this entire incident. The incident reported by Dr. Amitabh Saxena does not seem convincing to us. Dr. Amitabh Saxena also has an Indian Passport and he might fly out of the country soon, therefore, his passport should be seized as he cannot fly out of the country”

Someone stole $3 million in Bitcoin from Coinsecure Bitcoin exchange

Coinsecure’s security notice (left) – Filed Complaint (right)

Ningning Niumai, founder of Greymeter, a social network for college students and young professionals tweeted that Dr. Amitabh Saxena was appointed almost 6 months ago by the company, therefore, handing over private keys of Coinsecure is very suspicious.

“Dr. Amitabh Saxena appointed barely 6 months ago has the private key to Coinsecure’s wallet?!! Is he a Scapegoat?!! Very suspicious and convenient blame game after the recent RBI ruling on Bitcoin,” said Niumai.

It is noteworthy that Coinsecure incident has occurred days after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) barred banks and financial institutions from dealing in cryptocurrencies from April 6th, 2018.

“We have decided to ring-fence the RBI regulated entities from the risk of dealing with entities associated with virtual currencies. They are required to stop having a business relationship with the entities dealing with virtual currencies forthwith and unwind the existing relationship within a period of three months,” said BP Kanungo, deputy governor.

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