Analysis: Bitstamp Hacker Almost Stole Additional $1.75 Million
Bitstamp narrowly avoided losing an additional $1.75m in bitcoin during its recent hack, according to a blockchain analysis by an independent researcher. In the final hours of a $5.1m heist that took place at the exchange five days ago, the $1.75m in bitcoin was quickly moved to an address thought to be used for cold storage by Bitstamp, analyst Danno Ferrin has found. CoinDesk can confirm that the address in question was controlled by Bitstamp as recently as 2nd December. The firm's chief executive, Nejc Kodric, said at the time that the address was being used during an audit. While the....
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The returned sum represents only a minor portion of the over $600 million stolen from Poly Network. These transfers have occurred across the three wallets associated with the Poly Network hacker across the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Polygon networks. Poly Network confirmed receipt of the returned funds via a tweet issued on Tuesday.Details from Etherscan show that $2 million worth of Shiba Inu (SHIB) and $616,000 in Fei USD (FEI) tokens are being returned.So far, we have received a total value of $4,772,297.675 assets returned by the hacker. ETH address: $2,654,946.051 BSC....
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NXT developers announced to CCN that there would be no rollback. To view the announcement, visit our article here. This morning, around 50 million NXT was stolen from the popular cryptocurrency exchange BTER. The number is outstanding, as the amount stolen is near five percent of all NXT in existence. The proof-of-stake coin's community is now faced with a difficult decision that Vericoin developers faced a few months ago when hackers stole Vericoin from Mintpal. Either NXT allows the thief to get away with the funds, or they rollback the blockchain to just before the theft transaction....