Where there are encrypted coins, there are hackers, and the FAB mining pool is permanently closed after 100,000 stolen coins
Code bugs are almost inevitable. According to blockchain security information platformBcsecAccording to incomplete statistics, in the past two years (from July 2016 to the present), there have been at least 100 blockchain hacking incidents, and the publicly exposed losses have reached 3 billion US dollars, and this number is still rising.
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FaChain is a public chain project developed by a Canadian team. It claims to be commercially available and has good scalability. The landing scenario is a decentralized e-commerce application. The price of FAB ICO is 2.5USDT/FAB. The main network of the hair chain was launched in April this year, attracting some community participants such as developers and miners, but also attracted the attention of hackers.
2 months ago, HiPool also issued an announcement saying that the mining pool was attacked by illegal network traffic for many consecutive days in the early hours of the morning, and the method was DDoS (a large number of "legal" requests from puppet machines occupy a large amount of network resources to achieve the purpose of paralyzing the network) , CC (simulating multiple users to visit continuously), etc. In order to ensure the safety of customers' digital assets and the smooth connection of miners, HiPool cooperates with a security company to protect HiPool.
But after all, it failed to resist the attack. Blockchain makes the storage of cryptocurrency more private, but if the wallet is not properly kept, it will be difficult to trace if it goes missing. Therefore, HiPool reminded friends and merchants in the announcement that they must back up their wallets in different places multiple times to avoid the tragedy from happening again.
In history, the two most vicious mining pool losses were in August 2014, when a hijacker used a loophole to redirect the connection of a Bitcoin miner to a mining pool controlled by himself, thereby collecting $83,000 in profit from the miner. In March 2015, several large mining pools such as AntPool, BW.com, NiceHash, CKPool, and GHash.io encountered DDOS attacks, resulting in service interruption and a decline in the overall network computing power of some blockchain projects.
