Crypto mining agency BIT Mining mentioned its subsidiary BTC.com misplaced $3 million value of digital property to a cyberattack on Dec. 3, in accordance with a Dec. 26 assertion.

BIT Mining wrote that $700,000 of the stolen funds belonged to BTC.com’s shoppers whereas the remaining $2.3 million belonged to it. The corporate didn’t disclose the small print of the stolen property.

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining agency reported the incident to regulation enforcement companies in Shenzhen, China. It added that the authorities launched an investigation on Dec. 23 and that it’s cooperating with the related companies to get better the stolen property.

BIT Mining mentioned it had applied mandatory precautions to forestall a recurrence. It added:

“BTC.com is at the moment working its enterprise as normal, and aside from its digital asset providers, its consumer fund providers are unaffected.”

BTC.com is a mining pool enterprise underneath BIT Mining. The agency has a crypto pockets arm with over 1 million customers globally.

Via its web site, BTC.com additionally supplies real-time on-chain details about Bitcoin and different digital property like Ethereum, and many others.