.BitrueOfficial has been drained of 172.5 billion $SHIB and other coins worth $23 million in total. PeckShieldAlert $MATIC $GALA $QNT $HOT
, as well as Polygon and other cryptos, have been drained from it. The hacker has already begun selling the stolen crypto.According to a Twitter thread of Bitrue, earlier today, an unknown individual or a group exploited one of the hot wallets of the exchange. The attackers managed to get away with crypto worth roughly $23 million.
That list includes, according to PeckShieldAlert, 22.5 billion Shiba Inu, 320 ETH, 173,000 QNT, 46.4 million GALA, 756.15 million HOT and 310,000 MATIC. 2/4: The attackers were able to withdraw assets worth approximately 23M USD in ETH, QNT, GALA, SHIB, HOT and MATIC. The affected hot wallet only holds less than 5% of our overall funds. The rest of our wallets remain secure and have not been compromised.Bitrue stressed that the hacked wallet held only 5% of the overall amount of crypto stored by the exchange. The rest of its wallets were not compromised.
Due to the situation, withdrawals have been suspended by Bitrue, and it will resume operations on April 18. The tweet promises that all affected customers who are identified will receive full compensation for their losses.PeckShieldAlert has reported that the aforementioned amounts of SHIB, GALA, QNT and MATIC were sold for approximately 8,540 ETH, pushing the price of QNT down 11% within three hours of that sale.
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