DragonEX suffered a major cyberattack
DragonEX announced that user and platform crypto assets were transferred and stolen in a March 2019 cyberattack, and temporarily closed platform services while investigating the incident.
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DragonEX announced that user and platform crypto assets were transferred and stolen in a March 2019 cyberattack, and temporarily closed platform services while investigating the incident.
Gatecoin ceased operations after a Hong Kong court granted a winding-up order against the company, leading to compulsory liquidation.
Public reporting reproduced Gatecoin's notice that a Hong Kong court had granted a winding-up order and that operations ceased immediately.
By 2019-02-26, Abucoins was publicly marked closed and inactive.
CoinPulse's official notice said withdrawals would stay open until 2019-02-07 and that the exchange would then be placed into maintenance until further notice.
Quadriga sought and received CCAA protection on February 5, 2019 after the platform had shut down on January 28, 2019.
QuadrigaCX sought and received creditor protection in Nova Scotia after founder Gerald Cotten's death and the reported inability to access large amounts of customer cryptocurrency.
CoinPulse's official notice set 2019-02-01 as the date when all trading and deposits would be suspended while withdrawals remained open.
CoinPulse published an urgent notice stating that trading and deposits would be suspended from 2019-02-01, withdrawals would remain open until 2019-02-07, and the exchange would then enter maintenance until further notice.
Liqui announced it was shutting down on 2019-01-28 and told users they had 30 days to withdraw funds.
Coinroom was added to the Polish KNF public warning list over suspected unlicensed payment-services activity.
A 51% attack on the Ethereum Classic network produced double-spend transactions affecting Gate.io, which reported a loss of about 40,000 ETC and later said part of the funds was returned.
Cryptowisser marked 247Exchange inactive, stating that the website no longer seemed to work and that the exchange appeared to have terminated its activities. Cryptowisser's Exchange Graveyard lists 247Exchange with a 2019-01-01 MIA marker, and CoinMarketCap lists the exchange as inactive and untracked.
Official liquidation materials describe a serious January 2019 hack that caused severe operational and reputational damage.
WEX reached its terminal operating state on the date used by HEI as the end marker.
Aphelion disabled all MainNet DEX market pairs while citing new SEC rulings, market conditions, NEO technical challenges, and diminishing cash flow.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a settled action involving EtherDelta's founder and the operation of EtherDelta as an online trading platform for ERC20 tokens.
Public references describe WEX as ceasing work in late 2018 without returning customer assets, with later reporting and legal action referring to missing funds from WEX accounts.
MapleChange ceased operations after the crisis that ultimately ended the platform.
EuroToken OÜ, the European operator of ATAIX, announced licenses for virtual-currency exchange and wallet services.
Tech Bureau disclosed that cryptocurrency held for the Zaif service had been unlawfully transferred following external unauthorized access, with later Zaif materials describing losses of roughly 7 billion yen in BTC, MONA, and BCH.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas licensed PDAX to operate as a virtual currency exchange in September 2018.
The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance said an order to cease and desist against Bulbul Investments LLC doing business as CampBX became final on 2018-07-25.
Japan's Financial Services Agency announced an administrative action after supervisory review identified deficiencies in bitbank's governance, customer-asset segregation, anti-money-laundering controls, and outsourced-service management.
Coinrail suspended services after a cyber intrusion in June 2018, with public reporting estimating losses around $40 million in cryptocurrencies.