News reaching Ethereum World News indicate that the Nano (NANO) Cryptocurrency project and its core members have been served with another lawsuit linked to the BitGrail Hack that happened in early February 2018. With approximately $180 Million lost during the hack, the new class action suit alleges that NANO and its core members violated federal securities laws and encouraged investors to open accounts with the Italian exchange known as BitGrail.
Filed on the 3rd of this month by James Fabian individually and on behalf of all other affected investors, the lawsuit names Francesco Firano, Colin Lemahieu, Mica Busch, Zach Shapiro, Troy Retzer, the NANO Project and BitGrail as defendants of the case. It has been filed in the District Court of Northern California.
Lawsuit Recommends Forking NANO to Compensate Lost Coins
The lawsuit goes on to request that NANO and its core developers issue a ‘rescue fork’ to compensate those affected by the hack. It states
Defendants still own and control millions if not tens of millions of XRB and do not want to sacrifice any financial advantage they currently hold over the average XRB investor victimized by the XRB disappearance at BitGrail, which Defendants would do by “rescue forking” and returning the stolen digital assets.
Failure to Investigate Whether BitGrail Was Secure
Notwithstanding Defendants’ widespread promotion of BitGrail as a safe haven for XRB investors, BitGrail’s troubled past, uncertain present, and questionable future make Defendants’ recommendations highly suspect, if not outright reckless.
In early – January 2018, many BitGrail users reportedly experienced problems with the reliability and security of BitGrail’s trading platform. BitGrail account-holders took to social media to decry the lack of reliability and trustworthiness of BitGrail’s operations or the reliability of the XRB code itself.
Despite the account glitches and functionality concerns that affected so many BitGrail users, the Nano Defendants did not distance themselves from the BitGrail Defendants as a direct result of the problems.
NANO Developers Had Been Cleared From the First Lawsuit
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