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Mar 30, 20191 min

Bithumb is Hacked again, 3M of EOS & 20M XRP stolen

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb faced another hack on their EOS and XRP wallets, hackers liquidating the stolen coins through a crypto swap platform like Coinswitch, changelly etc. which doesn't required KYC. 

This news came from social media twitter account by crypto influencer, Dovey Wan. “Bithumb is being hacked, at its EOS cold storage level! Over 3 million EOS has been transferred out,” she tweeted :

Then she tweeted again with some more details with the amount of fund stolen and where all fund was transferred :

Then again she tweeted :

The numbers on stolen fund distribution (number of $EOS) and the hacker’s address still holds 1.9Million $EOS
 
EXMO: 662,600
 
Huobi: 263,605
 
Changelly 143,511
 
KuCoin: 96,270
 
CoinSwitch: 38,725

No information found from Bithumb’s Twitter so far. However, one of the user spotted that the exchange actually posted several tweets regarding the hack a while ago, which were deleted afterwards.

As per the tweet by Binance CEO CZ, None of the Allegedly hacked EOS transferred to Binance Exchange. He tweeted:

#Bithumb #Hacked #Bitcoin #Crypto #EOS #XRP #CryptoNews #BitcoinNews #BithumbHacked

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