The Liquid Global exchange in Japan has been
hacked, and deposits and withdrawals have been stopped.
• The exchange stated in a tweet on Thursday that
its warm wallets had been hacked and that it was taking digital assets offline.
• While the exact amount stolen has yet to be
established, Eddie Wang, senior researcher at OKLink, told CoinDesk that the
value seized in bitcoin, ether, ripple, tron, and other cryptocurrencies may be
worth upwards of $90 million.
• The message said, “We are actively investigating
and will give frequent updates.” “Deposits and withdrawals will be stopped in
the meantime.”
• Liquid Global later stated it is working with
other exchanges to freeze the money in a tweet.
• Johnny Lyu, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange
KuCoin, said that his platform was aware of the situation and has banned the
hacker's wallet addresses. It's probable that other exchanges will follow suit.
• So far, nine wallet addresses have been
discovered where the hacker is depositing stolen money.
• At 7:20 UTC, one of the addresses provided by Liquid Global was still accepting bitcoin.
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