HTX recuperează 8 milioane de dolari din fonduri furate și emite hackerului o recompensă de 250 ETH

HTX recuperează 8 milioane de dolari din fonduri furate și emite hackerului o recompensă de 250 ETH

Marca temporală: 8 octombrie 2023 1:26
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Huobi Global’s crypto exchange HTX has confirmed the return of the funds stolen by a hacker in late September and issued a 250 Ether (ETH) bounty after resolving the issue.

One of HTX’s hot wallets was drained of 5,000 ETH on Sept. 25, worth roughly $8 million at the time. Shortly after the hack occurred, the firm contacted the hacker and claimed to know their identity.

HTX ultimately offered to pay a 5% bounty worth around $400,000 and not to take any legal action if they returned 95% of the funds before a deadline of Oct. 2.

In an Oct. 7 X (formerly Twitter) post, Huobi Global investor and HTX adviser Justin Sun noted: “The hacker made the right choice. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone in the industry for their help!”

“Strengthening blockchain security and protecting user assets is never an easy task, and we have been working tirelessly! Providing full security for user assets is always our goal to strive for! We are thankful for the continued support of our users and community!” he added.

Hackers have been rampant in the third quarter of 2023. According to a recent report from blockchain security platform Immunefi, there have been 76 hacks on crypto and Web3 projects and firms in Q3 2023, compared with 30 in Q3 2022.

The same week HTX was hacked, the decentralized cross-chain protocol Mixin Network was also exploatat pentru aproximativ 200 de milioane de dolari after the attackers breached a third-party cloud service provider.

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Mixin Network offered a $20 million bug bounty if they returned the funds; however, the likelihood of getting the funds back appears slim.

On Oct. 6, Anne Neuberger, the United States deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, sugerat to Bloomberg that North Korean hackers may be behind the Mixin exploit.

“The tradecraft appears to be the same kind of tradecraft we’ve seen from the DPRK previously,” she said.

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