KuCoin CEO says insurance covered remaining losses stemming from $285M hack i...
KuCoin users were unaffected by the $285 million hack of 2020, as insurance funds covered the $16 million unrecovered from the incident. KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu has revealed that users did not suffer losses on account of the hack that occurred in 2020. The KuCoin chief made this known as part of a letter titled “2020, 2021, and Beyond.”Back in September 2020, the cryptocurrency exchange suffered a security breach with 230 different cryptos stolen from its hot wallet. At the time, the total theft amounted to about $285 million.In the letter, Lyu revealed that the combined efforts of other....
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KuCoin has resumed full services for 176 out of the total 230 tradable assets to date. KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange has recovered the majority of funds lost in a $280 million hacking incident in September, a senior executive has said.Johnny Lyu, co-founder and CEO of KuCoin, announced on Nov. 11 that the exchange has now recovered 84% of stolen assets. Lyu said that the recovery process involved “on-chain tracking, contract upgrade and judicial recovery.” He also noted that the exchange will publish more details on reimbursement once the case is closed.According to Lyu, KuCoin has....
KuCoin is partially restoring crypto withdrawals after a major hack. The KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange is partly restoring deposits and withdrawals following a major hack.As KuCoin officially announced on Oct. 7, the platform has completed the wallet security upgrade for major cryptos like Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Tether (USDT).Following the upgrade, KuCoin has resumed the deposit and withdrawal service of BTC, ETH, and ERC-20-based USDT. According to the announcement, USDT running on other blockchains like EOS, Tron, and Omni is not yet available for withdrawals. KuCoin....
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s clutches. Additionally, evaluations show the breach may be much larger than originally estimated, as one report says the compromise saw $280 million stolen. The Kucoin hack has been the talk of the town in crypto land these days, as the exchange was hacked on September 25, 2020. News.Bitcoin.com....
Elliptic says the Kucoin hacker has sold $17.1 million worth of tokens via decentralized exchanges (dex) platforms like Uniswap, Kyber Network, Tokenlon. The shift to dex applications comes after centralized projects came to the aid of the beleaguered exchange by blocking any cashing out of the hack related funds. For the past few days, the blockchain analysis firm says it has been seeing stolen tokens being swapped with censorship-resistant cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Despite this change in tactics, Elliptic insists it has the technology that can still trace the movement of such....
AIG offers Cyber Insurance. American Insurance Group, aka AIG, has announced that it is now offering a new type of insurance policy, one that will compensate companies and individuals, that have suffered losses due to cyber attacks that damage property and harm people. Tracey Alloway, writing from New York Financial Times, reports that this new insurance policy is the first of its kind from a major international insurer and offers a level of cover beyond that previously available. In the past policies were available but they only covered corporate losses arising from data breaches. At the....