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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:


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