Huobi Sends $400k to Wrong User Accounts

One of China’s top exchanges, Huobi, revealed that it temporarily lost 920 BTC and 8,100 LTC – worth about $411,000 – yesterday, but added that it had recovered the majority of the assets.
Huobi posted on its official Weibo account that a customer service representative had erroneously deposited the coins to 27 user accounts.
The exchange said that its security department was alerted at 3am this morning and its withdrawal systems were temporarily suspended.

This post was published at Coin Desk on September 25, 2014.

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