Coinwallet.co bitcoin wallet hacked, is closing down
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Coinwallet.co bitcoin wallet hacked, is closing down

THELOGICALINDIAN - In a bulletin acquaint to their website Coinwalletco appear that their wallet account has suffered a abstracts aperture and that they are closing bottomward their wallet permanently

According to Coinwallet, the wallet was afraid on April 6 due to an absurdity in their cipher area they weren’t condoning a user ascribe which was exploited by the hackers to accretion admission to their database. Luckily, it appears they had a advancement aegis system, which was accomplished and according to the wallet provider no chump bill were lost. However, it seems the attackers were able to accretion admission to some database advice such as passwords, as they brash all users to change passwords anywhere they were application the aforementioned countersign that they acclimated on Coinwallet.co.

Due to the aegis breach, Coinwallet said they are closing bottomward and not reopening. They said,

All Coinwallet users accept to abjure any bill they accept in their wallet by May 1, 2016. Here is the statement in abounding on their website: