CEO Nicholas Cary: ‘Around 250 BTC Gone’ in Blockchain.info Security Lapse

An estimated 250 bitcoins have been ‘lost’ by Blockchain.info following a security lapse during an update yesterday, it has emerged.
A blog post on Blockchain’s website confirmed error messages viewable on several hundred user accounts which read ‘A security issue affects address X. Please Contact [email protected]‘.
According to Blockchain, the issue affected less than 0.0002% of its database and all users potentially involved have been alerted via email.
Although the post makes no mention of losses having been incurred during the breach, which was created by engineers during a software update, CEO Nicholas Cary later commented that up to US$90,000 worth of Bitcoin could have gone missing. He told Insidebitcoins:
‘We are currently researching specific incidents, working with affected users, and reimbursing those users which lost funds.’

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-12-09.