Youbit Cryptocurrency Exchange in South Korea Collapses Files for Bankruptcy
Events, Regulation December 19, 2017 Comments Off on Youbit Cryptocurrency Exchange in South Korea Collapses Files for Bankruptcy 15A cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea collapsed on Tuesday after it suffered a second cyberattack in eight months and lost a large amount of its digital-currency reserves. Yapian, the company that operates a Seoul-based exchange called Youbit, suspended digital-currency trading and filed for bankruptcy after its systems were hacked in the predawn hours of Tuesday. The exchange trades 10 virtual currencies including bitcoin and ethereum. …
Source: Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses, Files for Bankruptcy After Second Hack – WSJ