The CEO of NiceHash has said in a video streaming on Facebook, that more than 4.700 Bitcoin, worth 78 million dollars, have been stolen and that they are investigating the incident.

Computer attacks and cryptocurrency thefts are not a novelty in this world, since we are facing a market and a system that is constantly being created and evolving. The last and most compromised situation is NiceHash, one of the main cryptocurrency markets that has confirmed that slightly more than 4.700 Bitcoin have been stolen, which is equivalent to about 78 million dollars in the market, making it a very important theft and whose value could rise a lot in the coming days.

Through a video streaming through Facebook, the CEO and Co-Founder Marko Kobal, has given more information regarding the complex situation that occurred a few days ago in the company. NiceHash was founded in 2014 and it is the first hack and theft in the company, but this is the most important. The news comes at the same time that some users access and detect the empty wallets and the subsequent fall of the website.

Kobal has commented that the attack began early on December 6, after the computer of one of the workers was compromised. He also highlighted that the team is working with the police, explaining that "we are still carrying out a forensic analysis" to determine what has happened. Kobal has highlighted that after several hours, the one behind the theft in its system, at 3:34 am CET, began the diversion of the company's portfolios.

The funds have been diverted to a distributed portfolio containing 4.736,42BTC, which remain in this portfolio, as reported. The CEO of NiceHash has stressed that he cannot give more data at the moment, but has said that this attack appears to be "an incredibly coordinated and highly sophisticated attack. There is no data, but the chances that China and North Korea are behind the attack are quite high.