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AllCrypt
Small altcoin-focused cryptocurrency exchange operating from March 2014. AllCrypt announced a planned 2015-03-31 shutdown, then went offline earlier in March after an attacker obtained WordPress administrative access and drained its BTC hot wallet. The exchange did not return as a durable service.
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Summary
Small altcoin-focused cryptocurrency exchange operating from March 2014. AllCrypt announced a planned 2015-03-31 shutdown, then went offline earlier in March after an attacker obtained WordPress administrative access and drained its BTC hot wallet. The exchange did not return as a durable service.
Timeline
A contemporaneous exchange-list tracking thread recorded that AllCrypt's 2015-03-10 blog post said the exchange would go offline on 2015-03-31 and instructed users to remove coins.
AllCrypt's site notice, reproduced contemporaneously on Bitcointalk, said an attacker exploited access associated with the WordPress installation, uploaded files, and drained the BTC wallet; the operator took the site completely offline while assessing the damage.
Public reporting and security analysis described AllCrypt as having been compromised through its WordPress setup, resulting in stolen cryptocurrency and the exchange going offline.
After the March 2015 compromise, AllCrypt went offline and is now listed as inactive by exchange data references.