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UK Crypto Exchange EXMO Offline Amid DDoS Attack
The exchange said it's working to bring services back online following the attack.
Cryptocurrency exchange EXMO is down at press time, with the company saying it was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
- The U.K.-based exchange tweeted around 13:00 UTC Monday that its servers are temporarily unavailable owing to the attack and that it's "solving this issue."
- Several hours later, work to get the site back online still seems to be ongoing.
- A DDoS attack occurs when an online service is hit with massive volumes of traffic in order to slow or halt its operations.
- The attack comes less than two months after EXMO lost nearly 6% of its crypto assets in a security breach on Dec. 21, 2020.
See also: Bitcoin.org Briefly Shut Down by Denial of Service Attack; Bitcoin Not Affected
Jamie Crawley
Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.
