A small Canadian crypto exchange Maplechange, which is recently announced its departure due to the hack, has said in its Twitter that hackers managed to steal only eight bitcoins (BTC) out of fifteen.
The negative balance was used in order to fully buyout every market the attackers felt like, they were able to sell without limitations and accumulated 15BTC of non-existent funds. Out of which they only managed to withdraw what he had in total - 8BTC.
— MapleChange (@MapleChangeEx) October 29, 2018
Earlier the media has spread the information that the exchange has lost approximately $6 million (919 BTC).
Irrelevant of what the media has spewed out about us, I'd like to bring to light our point of view, should you choose to believe it or not. We have NEVER had 919BTC in our wallet, the picture that displayed so showed the volume abuse caused by the hackers.
— MapleChange (@MapleChangeEx) October 29, 2018
One way or another the exchange has already written on social media that it “didn’t have the funds to pay customers back”.
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