Cryptopia Bitcoin Exchange resumes its read-only mode

The site of the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, affected by the actions of hackers in mid-January, resumed work in a read-only mode.

Update: The site is now live. This is a balanceline for calculating rebates.

– Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) March 5, 2019

Users can log into their accounts and check the account balance. At that, the displayed amount will correspond to the state of the account as of January 14 – until the moment the withdrawal of funds begins by the attacker. In the future, these data will be used by the exchange in the calculation of payments to victims.

The Cryptopia manual urged users to update passwords and data for two-factor authentication. Other site functionality is currently unavailable.

Also, for the first time since the moment of hacking, the exchange has announced the return of funds to affected users, indicating that it is at the “final stage”.

The site promised to publish additional information later.

Recall that hackers broke into the Cryptopia exchange in mid-January, having stolen $ 16 million , according to data provided by analytical company Elementus. Soon, the same company reported that another $ 3.2 million had been stolen from Cryptopia.

The site itself claimed that in the worst case scenario, it lost a maximum of 9.4% of all its funds.

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