Update: A previous article calculated that $1.8 was stolen. This article has been updated to reflect figures disclosed by Eterbase: $5.4 million.
Hackers have compromised yet another cryptocurrencycryptocurrency exchange. This time, it’s the small-time Slovakian exchange Eterbase—though the amount hackers made off with is nothing to sneeze at: over $5 million.
Hackers today raided Eterbase’s wallets for BitcoinBitcoin, EthereumEthereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand and TRON, the exchange reported on its Telegram channel today. It all adds up to about $5.4 million, according to Eterbase.
Dear users, the exchange is currently in maintenance mode because our hot wallets were compromised last night:https://t.co/XWZZoWxLd0
Sorry for the inconvenience and please have some patience untill we solve the issue.
Eterbase is a small crypto exchange that trades about $3 million per day, per metrics site Coin Gecko. Early this morning, hackers managed to get into Eterbase’s hot walletswallets, i.e. those wallets that are connected to the Internet (as opposed to cold wallets, which are not). No personal information was stolen, said Nenad Ristic, who handles Eterbase’s social media channels, and the company has enough money to meet its obligations to customers.
The funds went to various exchanges. The ETH funds, for instance, went into the US dollar-pegged stablecoinstablecoin, Tether; decentralized exchange Uniswap; non-custodial lending protocol Compound and centralized exchange Binance.
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Eterbase wrote in its Telegram channel: “We have reported the matter to law enforcement and we are cooperating closely in the investigation. We want to assure our clients that we are taking all necessary steps to ensure that the amount of their deposit does not suffer any damage as a result of a hacker attack.”
It added: “Due to ongoing investigation more details can not be announced currently. Sorry for the inconvenience and please have some patience until we solve the issue.” Eterbase has also suspended withdrawals into euros until September 10.
Hackers have once again moved Bitcoin funds stolen from crypto exchange Bitfinex back in 2016.
According to Whale Alert, a Twitter bot that traces large cryptocurrency transactions, the hackers moved 473.3 Bitcoin, worth $5.7 million, into an unknown wallet. The funds were split into several wallets, but the majority of the funds, 467 Bitcoin ($5.6 million) now sits in one wallet.
In August 2016, hackers pilfered about 120,900 Bitcoin from Bitfinex. At today’s prices, that’s roughly $1.4 billio...
These hacks have spawned the mantra: “not your keys; not your Bitcoin”—a kind of “I told you so” for the cryptocrypto world that refers to the risk involved in entrusting cryptocurrency exchanges with custody over your cryptocurrencies.
This concern spawned the rise of the DEX—that’s a decentralized exchange—which is a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange. Assuming the code is bug-free on decentralized exchanges—an often big assumption—the only person to blame for a crypto hack is yourself. And the hacker, of course.
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