Hackers stole the contents of the Bitcoin wallet of NiceHash, a cloud-based cryptocurrency mining market on Wednesday. The disclosure regarding the hacking comes after users reported hours-long outage of its service.
Yesterday, the cryptocurrency mining marketplace announced that its service was under maintenance.
The company did not disclose the total amount of the stolen bitcoins Reports indicated that it could be millions given the fact that the value of the digital currency is $14,374 as of December 6.
NiceHash is investigating the security breach
In a statement, NiceHash informed its users its website suffered a security breach. The cryptocurrency mining company decided to stop its operations over the next 24 hours, and is investigating the hacking incident. It is verifying the exact number Bitcoin hackers stole from its wallet.
Based on the wallet address shared by NiceHash users, the hackers may have taken 4,736 bitcoins. Its total value is around $62 million. Users noted that the wallet address is new and they suspected that the hackers created it.
