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Canada’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange to Shut Down Following Alleged Hack
By Editorial Staff on Fri, 02/20/2015
Canada's largest Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex announced it will soon be shutting down its operations after a suspected security breach. In a statement made earlier this week, the Calgary-based company said it believed the compromise occurred on an older version of its database on February 15, which included two-factor authentication secrets, as well as hashed passwords. Although it assured...