Tencent Security Report: Hacker attacks on digital currencies caused $2 billion in losses in the first half of the year

According to data provided by Tencent Security, hacker attacks related to digital currencies have increased by about five times from 2013 to 2018 (first half of the year), and are expected to increase by about 10 times throughout the year. In the first half of this year alone, hacker attacks on digital currencies have directly caused a loss of $2 billion. Among them, the number of incidents of losses caused by exchange problems is increasing. On the one hand, the lack of legal supervision has led to the reckless behavior of hackers. On the other hand, the technical protection system and monitoring level are not as good as those of stock exchanges and banks. In addition, the low risk and high return brought by the anonymity of digital currencies have made the digital currency industry a perfect fat sheep under the knife of hackers.