Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinberry has sued 50 users who withdraw 120 Bitcoin (BTC) without paying due to a software bug.
of the Financial Post September 8 According to the news dated Canadian stock market Coinberry, 2020 It gave a serious deficit in money transfer transactions after a software update it carried out in 2018. More than 500 users who abused the software error that occurred, embezzled 120 Bitcoins in total. Coinberry, the famous cryptocurrency exchange among them, to get back its stolen assets Binanceincluding the 50 the love side sued.
Coinberry exploited the vulnerability upon discovery of the bug. 546 the whole person email He contacted via and requested the return of Bitcoins. In addition, the exchange, which saw that some Bitcoins from Coinberry were transferred to Binance, contacted Binance and the assets were transferred to Binance. to be frozen demanded. Binance complies with Coinberry’s request frozen assets but still in the case for an undisclosed reason accused is located as.
Exchange, 120 Bitcoins 37 found on Binance, although he was able to retrieve one of them 9.48 In total, including Bitcoin 83 Bitcoin yet could not reach. Only the total value of the embezzled assets in the lawsuit, although the company says the number of people who have exploited the deficit is over 500 more than $5,000 users included. Users who are not sued are about approx. 20 Bitcoins is claimed to be worth it. How will Coinberry take action against other users? Unknown.