One of the biggest things that plague the space is exchange hacks, with a lot of renowned platforms falling victim to security breaches. Binance is a good example of this, as a few weeks ago, the world’s biggest crypto exchange was hacked thanks to a flaw in security to which 7,000 Bitcoins were stolen.
Whereas the Binance hack was bad and came as a shock to many, it wasn’t as bad as the Cryptopia hack earlier in the year. The New Zealand-based exchange lost almost all of its Ethereum holdings to hackers.
Following a security breach in mid-January this year, the platform was victim to yet another attack at the end of the month. In fact, a report by the blockchain analysis firm Elementus, showed that the exchange lost around $16 million worth of and ERC20 tokens to the first hack. Among some of the coins stolen were:
“Dentacoin, Oyster Pearl, DAPS, Lisk ML, Pillar, Mothership, Everus, Enjin Coin, Cappasity, LINA.”
Most of the stolen coins and tokens were recorded to have landed in top exchanges. The AMLT Token & Network tweeted out saying:
As the story continues to unfold, almost all landed on major exchanges while the still sits on a hackers address according to
Below is going to exchanges
— AMLT & Network (@AMLT_Token)
The platform followed up this with an update on the coins stolen by the hacker which had been transferred to another ‘major exchange’ as they say:
The hacker just moved funds to a major exchange according to Coinfirm!
The hacker sent 30790 (~$7.67M) to a new address (Yellow) and then sent 10 ETH (~$2500) to an exchange address (green) that then landed on their Hot Wallet.
— Coinfirm (@Coinfirm_io)
Published at Tue, 21 May 2019 10:08:03 +0000
