The problem at Poloniex? Previously announced maintenance work does not end, and representatives of stock exchanges are silent…

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex some time ago, announced on his Twitter account that on 8 March some of the exchange services will be unavailable due to the need for technical work. However, the predetermined term of certification is long expired, and the exchange and did not start to work in full.

Poloniex said that work, which can affect the withdrawal of funds in certain currencies will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m. EST Thursday. The exchange also stated that the work will not take much time, and wallets to operate in a very small period of time. However, at the time of publishing this article it has been over 17 hours, and the work continues and the stock exchange has not provided any additional information about when work will end.

We’ll be doing scheduled maintenance wallet today at ~12:30pm EST. During this time deposits and withdrawals may be impacted for some currencies but should be running again shortly after that!— Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) March 8, 2018

Earlier this week, Poloniex has warned users about a new phishing scheme that was used to obtain information about the user credentials. According to a post on Twitter, in the Google Play a bogus app Poloniex, through which the attackers worked.

We’ll be doing scheduled maintenance wallet today at ~12:30pm EST. During this time deposits and withdrawals may be impacted for some currencies but should be running again shortly after that!— Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) March 8, 2018

Of course, after these messages appeared rumors that Poloniex was hacked, but the exchange denied the rumors and stated that funds of customers are safe.

We’ve been made aware of false reports coming from the creator of an impostor Poloniex Poloniex app that the platform has been compromised. Please note, the Poloniex platform has NOT been compromised and there is NOT a Poloniex app. https://t.co/NaO0TeAuSm— Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) March 2, 2018

Earlier this week, some users have complained in the corresponding thread on reddit for too long a withdrawal from the stock exchange. One user reported that he was waiting for payment from 4 January.

Another user reported that he expects the money for more than 7 weeks.