The site's payment system was compromised and the contents of its bitcoin account have been stolen, it said. NiceHash provides a platform for users to mine for other cryptocurrencies and get paid in bitcoin. That could involve significant sums: it paid out millions of dollars in bitcoin every week, according to its official Facebook page. It wasn't immediately clear whether funds had been taken from NiceHash users' accounts as well. "While the full scope of what happened is not yet known, we recommend, as a precaution, that you change your online passwords," NiceHash warned users.

Source: CNN December 07, 2017 08:05 UTC