The most funny part is of course that, in as much as this was a real hack, and not an inside job, it was compliance with the law that rendered bitfinex vulnerable.  Remember that the CFTC inflicted a fine onto bitfinex because they kept their customers' coins in cold wallets, which, according to the CFTC, was violating one or other stupid rule concerning the customer having power over their funds, so bitfinex was forced to keep everything in hot wallets, and implemented hence this multisig feature which was apparently abused.

We see again the efficiency of state and law in screwing up working systems they don't like.

they are hacked by themself 

I don't think when people who leave 120K on an exchange like bitfinex are stupid and not smarter than any of us. There are always reasons people have money on them, so actively trade or trade against new players who might have been more active on those exchanges. Some do not follow social media or forums religiously and aren't aware of the hacks and scams that have happened in the past.

No, no of course they are still exchanges that are solid. With long history or clear origin, solid background and well crafted script and security (Kraken, Coinbase).
But - usually the more secured is exchange the more KYC/AML info they want from their customers (Gemini). So It is a trade-off between being safe and giving up your pseudoanonimity...

It's easy money, and probably even $1 million worth of coins is already more than they will ever see in their life. So yes, they'll just take it to "secure" their future. Because after 4 or 5 years people will slowly forget about it and they can slowly start spending or converting the coins after having mixed them for years.

yes some thing must be wrong there, there funds must be stolen and they will be trying how to recover it, and that is the reason that it has a bad effect on all the other exchanges, bitcoin is also influenced by bitfinex, but hope that the price of bitcoin will recover very soon, and hope that this time the price of bitcoin will even cross its previous position.

yup bitfinex is accountable with the lost and i just hope they can settle it right away bitcoin price has been shaken by that hack and insuring those client might results to a positive feedback, in terms of bitcoin the price will bounce back for sure as we know how bitcoin work for us, if not maybe many of us right now is moving away already.

Had 100k+ on Bitfinex, margin funding Usd@ 0.03 auto renewal 2 days.
Does anyone know @ how much margin funding was when it shut down?

what proof do you have? are you a staff member of that exchange?


No this is not. people who lost money is a another thing. but you should not forget that this is effecting bitcoin price so badly. so anyone who stored their coins in the exchange lost money and anyone who have bitcoin are also being in lost some how because of the price drops.

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I found some Interesting facts want to share here:

a newbie user giving away 1000 bitcoins for free here:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1574127.0

just read the OP's name and make it upside down.. You'll see the name will show like this: Bfxhacker = Bitfinex Hacker does this mean the hacker stolen all money and giving them away or he may belong to the hacker team somehow..

the balance of that user's wallet are from 2013, this thing make me confused.

well bitfinex hacking just happen recently and if the hacker were keeping the bitcoin on the bitfinex's cold storage address which was made 3 years ago and don't move it, it's just seems impossible because bitfinex must have the privkey backup,so it's mean no evidence uptill now that the funds is owned by bitfinex orignally