BitMex is Having a Bad Day

Another bad day for BitMex. The exchange’s official twitter account has been hacked and thousands of its customer email addresses were leaked online. BitMex is the world’s largest Bitcoin derivative trading exchange.

Today around 1:53 PM GMT, Bitmex‘s twitter posted two tweets that were deleted after only three minutes. One read “Hacked” and the other said “Take Your BTC and run. Last day for withdrawals.”

A new twitter account that was created today that goes by the name of Bitmexdatabaseleak posted 53 tweets about some leaked BitMex’s customer IDs.

And earlier today, Bitmex had another serious security incident resulting in the email addresses of many of its users being leaked by mistake.

A newsletter email was send out by BitMEX tp some of it’s customers, all the recipient email addresses were simply added as “To” rather than as “Bcc.” This means that every person’s email who was on the list of recipients was visible to everyone who received it.

BitMEX confirms that the funds are safe.

Following this, Binance exchange tweeted that they are aware of the large-scale user email leak from another exchange and encouraging affected users who trade both on BitMEX and Binance to change their email addresses asap to prevent any troubles with their accounts on Binance.