Stressing that its customers’ assets remain secure, the company added: “In order to act in the best interests of customers and deliver exceptional long-time customer service, we have decided to suspend digital assets/cryptocurrencies withdrawals … We assure [you] that OKEx’s other functions remain normal and stable.”
The long-running investigation into the loss of $190 million following the collapse of the doomed Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX has run into another brick wall.
Hacken’s CERtified standard is based on four factors. This criteria is then used to calculate a “CyberSecurity Score,” with top-performing exchanges receiving a maximum of three stars.
The QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy trustee, Ernst & Young, announced that it intended to comply with the Canadian tax authority’s request for customer records. Specifically, it is planning to share a database containing the “account balances and transaction data of affected users.”