by Tyler Durden [UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain] The last few weeks have been dismally littered with two things.The virtual losses of virtual wealth from virtual currency speculation and the very real losses of very real humans with very real senior financial services positions.Sadly, as NewsWatch reports, tonight sees the two trends converge as the 28-year-old CEO of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange First Meta has been found dead.The exact reason that may have led to the suicide is not known, and whether the Police have concluded that the cause of death is suicide is also unofficial.According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide.Reasons are currently unknown.First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange platform for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin.The news of suicide of its CEO Autumn Radtke spread on Facebook and Twitter, drawing attention from the BItcoin industry.

First Meta has stated that an official announcement will be given by the company soon.Before joining First Meta, Radtke was the Director of Business Development at Xfire – a company that develops IM systems for gamers.Radtke was also the Co-founder, Business Development at Geodelic Systems, Inc.There have been 9 senior financial services deaths in recent weeks: 1 – William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.2- Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.3 – Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.4 – Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 – Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.6 -Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.7 – Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago.No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.9 - James Stuart Jr., a "very successful banker" and Former National Bank of Commerce CEO found dead (with no details of what caused the death) in Scottsdale, Az.and numerous Bitcoin-related losses - from today's Flexcoin "bank" losses to the infamous Mt.Gox debacle: ...But beneath it all, some say, Mt.Gox was a disaster in waiting.

Last year, a Tokyo-based software developer sat down in Gox’s first-floor meeting room to talk about working for the company.bitcoin atm japan“I thought it was going to be really awesome,” says the developer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.litecoin online minerSoon, however, there were some serious red flags.yellow jacket bitcoin... According to a leaked Mt.asic litecoin miner for saleGox document that hit the web last week, hackers had been skimming money from the company for years.bitcoin forum satoshiThe company now says that it’s out a total of 850,000 bitcoins, more than $460 million at Friday’s bitcoin exchange rates.bitcoin seoul

When bitcoin enthusiast Jesse Powell heard this, he was reminded of June 2011.SINGAPORE/HANOI: The WannaCry ransomware worm that hobbled big institutions and businesses at the weekend, including FedEx and Britain's National Health Service, also indiscriminately caught many smaller victims across Asia, from hoteliers to Chinese students.When MediaOnline, a firm that operates digital displays in Singapore shopping malls, noticed its displays were showing the ransomware's pop-up window on Saturday, it sent engineers to two malls, director Dennis So told Reuters.In the end, the company said it managed to beat the ransomware attack without having to pay the US$300 or so in bitcoin that hackers demanded in return for a decryption key to unfreeze their computers.easy bitcoin paper walletA ransomware message encountered by a Facebook user on a directory screen at Tiong Bahru Plaza on Saturday (May 13).bitcoin in urdu

MediaOnline's So said only 12 computers were affected as the network was isolated from both the firm's office network and those of the company running the malls, and its tenants.bitcoin hilesi 2017By replacing all the hard drives, reinstalling the operating system and downloading all Microsoft Windows updates, the computers were back up and running by early Monday, with So saying "no money or bitcoin was paid to the hackers".At some larger organisations, it took longer.At Jakarta's Dharmais Hospital, Indonesia's biggest cancer centre, up to 200 people packed waiting rooms after cyber attacks hit scores of computers.By late Monday morning, some visitors were still filling out forms manually, though the hospital said 70 per cent of its systems were back online.Patients and family wait for their turn to register at Dharmais Hospital, IndonesiaÕs biggest cancer hospital, after the institution suffered cyber attacks affecting scores of computers in Jakarta, Indonesia May 15, 2017.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside The unknown hackers behind WannaCry don't appear so far to have been well rewarded for their global blitz, with about US$50,000 worth of bitcoin transferred to the online wallets listed in the recent and earlier versions of the malware, according to bitcoin transaction tracker Elliptic Labs.This may be partly because many of those infected, like MediaOnline, chose to restore their computer data from back-ups or by reinstalling the operating system.Others just held their breath.Yang Lin, a journalism student at China's Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, told Reuters she had just finished revising her thesis late on Friday and was closing Word on her desktop when all the Word icons blanked out, her screen went black and the hackers' message appeared."Iwas connected to the university network.I didn't open any link," she said.I was afraid to believe it, but had to accept it."Yangsaid she thought about paying the ransom to unfreeze her computer, but gave up when she found out how much this would cost.

Via a chat platform, she discovered many of her friends faced the same problem.She said she lost her literature review, foreign translations and thesis proposal, as well as films she had made over four years at college.In Vietnam, hotel and restaurant manager Ngo Viet Yen said he was given 24 hours to pay 5 bitcoin (worth around US$9,000) to save his files after his systems were infected on Friday.He didn't pay, and reckons he's lost around US$2,000, and possibly more, as his staff revert to taking bookings, writing receipts and managing stock manually.He noted that copyright infringement is widespread in Vietnam, and little is spent on system security."Thenumber of computers updated to the latest version is very low," he said."And the server is rarely updated because there will be more issues and it often slows the system.It's like: You only build a cage after losing your cows."Othersfound that even paying the ransom didn't guarantee they'd get their data decrypted."We'veseen some of our customers from the energy and health services who made the payment did not receive the decryption key in return," said Budiman Tsjin, senior technical consultant at RSA, the security division of EMC Corp.(US$1