{"id":215215,"date":"2017-12-07T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=215215"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:35:55","slug":"60-million-worth-of-bitcoin-stolen-in-nicehash-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/215215\/60-million-worth-of-bitcoin-stolen-in-nicehash-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"$60 million worth of bitcoin stolen in NiceHash hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NiceHash, the marketplace for cloud-based mining of cryptocurrencies, said hackers breached its systems and stole an unknown amount of bitcoin from its virtual wallet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken,\u201d the company said Wednesday in a statement on its Facebook page. It\u2019s halting operations for 24 hours, it said. The venture\u2019s main webpage showed a \u201cmaintenance\u201d error message, linking to its social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>NiceHash helps match people who can spare computing capacity with miners looking to solve complex math problems to obtain a variety of new coins. It later facilitates periodic payments to the service providers with bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>A wallet address circulated by NiceHash users shows that more than $60 million of bitcoins might be affected, according to CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency research and news website.<\/p>\n<p>NiceHash Chief Executive Officer Marko Kobal didn\u2019t immediately respond to a LinkedIn message seeking comment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/215179\/bitcoin-soars-through-14000\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bitcoin soars through $14,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NiceHash, the marketplace for cloud-based mining of cryptocurrencies, said hackers breached its systems and stole an unknown amount of bitcoin from its virtual wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":181363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215217,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215215\/revisions\/215217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}