Cryptocurrency Exchange EXMO Hit by DDoS Attack
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London-based British crypto exchange EXMO has reported it has suffered a hacker attack.

In particular, according to the platform, it has allegedly suffered a denial of service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the exchange to be down for a few hours.

The platform has shared the following message on its official Twitter profile:

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Notably, the attack comes just two months after the platform reported that hackers had stolen $10.5M in Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Tether and Zcash.

A DDoS attack like the one suffered by the exchange occurs when an online service is attacked with massive volumes of traffic in order to slow down or stop its operations.

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