Bithumb cryptocurrency exchange hacked a third time in two years

South Korean cryptocurrency coque pour huawei p10 lite silicone exchange Bithumb admitted to getting hacked again on Friday, March 29. This is the coque iphone 7 incassable et etanche third such incident the platform has reported in the past three years.

This third hack was acknowledged in a short Korean and English message posted on the company’s blog.

A Bithumb official said that around 10:15 pm, local time, coque huawei p10 lite mr jack the company detected abnormal withdrawals from its hot coque mobile huawei p10 lite walletsaccounts used to support real time transactions.

Hackers stole nearly $20 millionThe company did not disclose how much currency it lost; however, cryptocurrency industry insiders were able to track down the large transactions leaving the exchange’s wallet addresses around the time of the hack.

Based on currently available information, the attackers appear coque iphone 5s klimt to have made off with around three million EOS, worth coque iphone 5 lancel $13.4 million at the time of coque iphone 5c silicone pokemon the hack, and another 20 million Ripple coins (XRP), worth another coque iphone 6 dessin avec la pomme $6 million. Transactions were suspended for a short period, but the exchange is now up and coque iphone silicone jaune running again.

North Korean hackers againThis masking tape coque iphone is also the third hack coque iphone 7 pylone the company disclosed in coque iphone 5s fibre de carbone the coque iphone 6s plus rechargeable past two years. The first hack coque iphone 4 à rabat happened in July 2017, when hackers stole $7 million in coque iphone 5c je le ferai demain Bitcoin and Ethereum, muzzano coque iphone 6 while the second incident took place in June 2018, when hackers stole $31 million worth of Ripple (XRP).

According to a report released by cyber security firm Group IB last October, the second hack was attributed to the Lazarus Group, a codename given to coque avec anneau huawei p10 lite North Korea’s cyber espionage unitknown for its focus on hacking and stealing funds personnaliser coque iphone se pas cher from real world banks coque iphone 5s daisy and cryptocurrency platforms, as a side activity to carrying out cyber espionage intelligence gathering operations for the Pyongyang regime.

According to a Kaspersky coque iphone 5c silicone aliexpress report released this week, coque huawei p10 tete de mort Lazarus Group is still carrying out operations targeted at cryptocurrency platforms. Coincidentally or not, this is also the third cryptocurrency exchange huawei p10 coque jack coque iphone 6s cuir bleu to go public with a hack in the past seven days, after DragonEx and CoinBene.

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