KuCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange was hacked late night on Sept 25. So far the exchange has not shared the official amount of funds they lost from their wallets. Some analysts estimate more than $150 million worth of crypto funds may be gone. The exchange confirmed the hack, informing “Bitcoin, ERC20...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol bZx was hacked once again on the 13th Sept and lost over $8 million due to a faulty code in its smart contracts. This is the third time bZx has been attacked this year. In February, the protocol lost about $945,000 in two attacks. The...
VeChain Foundation announced that its buyback address was compromised, atoning to a loss of 1.1 billion VET tokens (approx. $6,700,000). Internal investigations are underway to determine the motive, method, and data flow behind this fraudulent act. A section of there announcement reads: “It was most likely due to misconduct of...
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit got hacked resulting in 342,000 ETH (approx $50.6 Million) stolen from their hot wallet. The hack happened on Nov 27th, 2019 at 5:06 AM (GMT+1). The stolen amount was moved from Upbit’s ETH hot wallet to the following address: 0xa09871AEadF4994Ca12f5c0b6056BBd1d343c029. As a result, Upbit has...
U.S. authorities have indicted two hackers, Elliot Gunton, and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking EtherDelta. The duo used a DNS attack on EtherDelta, a cryptocurrency exchange built on Ethereum blockchain in Dec 2017. The two hacked the EtherDelta systems using the employee phone number and email address purchased from the...
