CS.MONEY, one of the largest platforms for trading CS:GO skins, has taken its website offline after a cyberattack allowed hackers to loot 20,000 items worth approximately $6,000,000.
CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) is the fourth version of the immensely popular multiplayer first-person shooter that became free-to-play in 2018, maintaining the strong competitive play of the series.
It supports a vibrant virtual economy with weapon skins of varying rarity and desirability, which led to the creation of trading sites that use the Steamworks API to allow players to trade skins with each other.
The platform is still restoring its services and has entered the third day of its extended outage, while the impacted users still haven’t recovered their stolen items.
CS.MONEY announced on Twitter that it was agreed among other trading platforms to block trading of the 20,000 stolen items, preventing the hackers from selling them on other CS:GO trading platforms.
