Bitfinex, known as one of the world largest cryptocurrency exchange was forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday, December 12th.

Based in Hong Kong, Bitfinex used its Twitter account to inform its customers about the situation and stated that “We are currently under heavy DDOS. API is also down. We are working on further mitigation.”

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