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Threat actors walked away with $ 44 million


The Indian Cryptocurrency Exchange COINDCX was hacked Friday, leaving the exchange drained by $ 44 million.

Hackers have compromised one of the CoindCX’s internal accounts used for “liquidity provisions” along with another exchange by breaking the server.

No user funds have been affected by exploitation, According to In the Coindcx CEO Sumit Gupta. The CEO also said that all customer funds remain safe and write:

“The incident is quickly contained by separate the affected operation account. Since our operational accounts are separated from the customer’s purse, exposure is limited to this specific account and is fully absorbed by us, from our own treasury reserves.”

“The attacker’s address is funded by 1 Ether (Eth) From Tornado Cash and eventually turned into a portion of stolen funds from Solana to Ethereum, ”Onchain Sleuth Zachbt Says.

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The funds stolen by the CoindCX hack monitored. Source: Zachxbt

Cointelegraph handed it to the COINDCX to comment but did not get a response at the time of publication.

Analyst Infinity Hedge mentioned The famous exchange of India Wazirx is that -hack of $ 235 million On this exact date, a year ago – a reminder of the ongoing threat of cybersecurity facing the crypto industry and investor.

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Other crypto exchanges that fell into hackers last month

Exchange of Iran Nobitex is that -hack of $ 100 million On June 18 at a Political attacks Through a pro-israel hacker group calling its own “Gonjeshke Darande.”

After stealing $ 100 million in the initial hack, the group leaked the source code for the exchange online, further exposing the Crypto platform users.

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GMX V1, a version of the GMX Protocol Perpetual Exchange running on the Arbitrum Blockchain Network, Suffered an exploitation in cybersecurity On July 9, the hacker went away with $ 40 million.

However, the Hacker returned the stolen funds A few days later, a $ 5 million white hat was welcomed by $ 40 million in crypto.

Decentralized Finance (DEFI) Platform Arcadia Finance is the target of a Smart exploit of contract On Tuesday, leading to $ 3.5 million in crypto dried by the threat artist.

Magazine: Anger as $ 1.8B ‘DGCX’ Crypto Scam Ringleader is joking with victims: Asia Express