Did Shapeshift get hacked or did they receive a letter to comply with bitlicense?

Bitcoin Exchange Shapeshift is offline, and the experts argue if they got hacked or if they received a letter to comply with bitlicense – or both.

It was April 7th users was warned about a security-breach, Official Shapeshift wrote the following statement today on reddit:

Our CEO, Erik Voohees announced on our subreddit that our systems were compromised on April 7th CLICK HERE TO READ. The team continues to undergo a active forensic investigation of its server infrastructure to plug all holes before fully relaunching the site. Once the investigation is complete ShapeShift does plan to release a post-mortem of its finding to the community.

But something else is changing as well, suddenly Shapeshift has blocked US Citizens from using their platform

a Reddit user wrote:

Welp, looks like I should finally set up a VPN…

Anyone know of other methods for those in New York to buy and sell ETH?

From Reddit

Nobody from Shapeshift has commented on the last statement, but rumours are thriving in the troll sphere that they are under pressure from US Government SEC

When we visited Shapeshift, all we found was this frontpage saying they are down:

Shapeshift is down

Downtime…

We are upgrading infrastructure, we will likely be down for a few days. Apologies for the downtime, we’re working hard to bring the fox back bigger and better.

Please read our CEO Erik Voorhees’s official statement on the status of our site HERE

We will post updates on Twitter: @ShapeShift_io

Please join our public slack for updates as well. Click HERE to join.

If you have order issues that occured while our site was up, please submit those requests to our support team by clicking HERE

We hope for the best while monitoring the situation from Stakepool Teamspeak