The whole market continues to be traumatized by hacks as another exchange falls victim to a security breach. The exchange in question here is noted to be Cryptopia, a leading exchange based in New Zealand. On January 16, 2019, the exchange platform announced that its staff noticed a security breach, which, in the end, resulted in a loss of funds. The system of the exchange was compromised on January 14, 2018.
In their official statement, the team has stated that the exchange platform will continue to remain in maintenance mode until further notification by the regulatory authorities of New Zealand. The NZ and High Tech Crimes Unit are currently investigating the breach and the stated that a “significant value of may be involved” in the hack.
So far, the team has not confirmed the total amount of that were stolen during the hack nor are the details of the stolen disclosed to the public. However, a local , Radionz stated that the amount of stolen funds are around $3.6 million, and was transferred to an unknown .
In addition to this, large transfers in [ETH], the third biggest by market cap, and Centrality [CENNZ] from the exchange to the unknown is currently under the suspicion of . This movement was detected by Whale_Alert, a Twitter handle dedicated to detecting large transfers of in the market. According to the tweet, over $1176596 [over one million] worth of CENNZ and $2438152 [over 2 million] worth of was transferred out of the exchange.
Now, a Twitterati who goes by the username, ShaftedTangu stated on the social media platform that the stolen funds are now being to various exchanges including , a leading exchange platform around the globe.
Interestingly, the address [0x9007a0421145b06a0345d55a8c0f0327f62a2224] mentioned by the Twitterati pictures a transaction of various ERC 20 including coin such as Dentacoin, Kyber Network, Enjin Coin, and TrueUSD. This could mean that the hackers have swapped the ERC20 with other ERC20 . Additionally, ShaftedTangu claims that one of the wallets belongs to , and the has stolen MobileGo [MGO] .
The Twitterati went on to say:
“Currently the 0x900 contains around $10 mil USD of , large amounts are
$PRL $2mil,$CENNZ $1.168 mil, $Denacoin $2.73 mil,$MSP $0.99 mil”
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Published at Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:16:49 +0000
