Almost $1 million in Ether from wallets linked to the CoinStats exploit were transferred to crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash.
CoinStats said in a July 5 update that it’s still investigating the incident and is taking action to secure its new infrastructure.
The firm said the attack had been mitigated and noted that “none of the connected wallets and CEXes were impacted.” The company urged affected users to move their funds using their exported private keys.they are optimizing their transaction database and transferring to a different platform to improve efficiency and reliability. The company also said they’re enhancing systems with upgrades and audits.
“Our AWS infrastructure was hacked, with strong evidence suggesting it was done through one of our employees who was socially engineered into downloading malicious software onto his work computer.”
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