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Thriller Rundown - S4EP10: Another Exchange Hack

Thriller "A Bitcoin Zine"
Thriller "A Bitcoin Zine"
Episode • Sep 29, 2020 • 27m
Over $150M Drained in KuCoin Crypto Exchange Hack.

Over the weekend, a hacker breached KuCoin’s hot wallets absconding with some $150 million in crypto. KuCoin said in a statement that it detected large withdrawals of bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) tokens to an unknown wallet beginning at 19:05 UTC time on Friday. The exchange’s chief executive Johnny Lyu said KuCoin has transferred the remaining funds from compromised wallets to new addresses and momentarily froze customer deposits and withdrawals. While other exchanges including Bitfinex and Tether have blacklisted the stolen funds. An investigation is underway and stolen customer money...

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