Tagged: crypto hack

Cybersecurity Firm Glasswall CEO Comments on $540M Crypto Hack

Cybercriminals have reportedly “duped” a senior engineer at a crypto-based online gaming company, Axie Infinity, into applying for a job at a “fictitious” company. The result: “the loss of $540 million in cryptocurrency,” according to an update shared with CI (and also widely reported). While… Read More

$326M Stolen in Wormhole Crypto Hack, Solana (SOL) Token Crashes Following Exploit

Wormhole, which is described as a communication bridge between Solana (SOL) and other DeFi/blockchain platforms, claims that bad actors stole around $320 million in virtual currency. The wormhole network was exploited for 120k wETH. ETH will be added over the next hours to ensure wETH… Read More

Liquid Exchange Hacker Continues to Swap Stolen ERC-20 Tokens for Ethereum (ETH) and wETH via DEXes to Prevent Funds From Being Frozen

On August 18, 2021, hackers managed to steal more than $90 million in over 69 different cryptocurrencies and digital tokens from Japan-based exchange Liquid Global. Liquid’s teams had “yet to release a postmortem detailing the attack vector used by the hacker,” the CipherTrace team noted… Read More

Over $8 Million in Cryptocurrency Tokens Stolen from Nexus Mutual Founder Hugh Karp’s Personal Account: Report

On December 14, 2020 (at 09:40 am UTC), CertiK Skynet discovered a very large transaction from Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual, a “people powered” alternative to insurance built on Ethereum, which transferred 370,000 NXM tokens to an unknown cryptocurrency account. The total value of… Read More

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