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Cryptopia Experiences New Hack After 15 Days; $180,000 Lost
Fifteen days were enough for hackers to break once again into Cryptopia’s wallets and steal 1,675 ETH from their wallets. According to some reports, after losing $16 million two weeks ago, attackers were able to steal 1,675 Ether (ETH) from 17,000 different wallets at the Cryptopia exchange.
15 days later, the Cryptopia hack continues — another 17k Ethereum wallets breachedhttps://t.co/yDcbePx7OE#Cryptopiahack #Cryptopia #Blockchain #CryptoNews
— Elementus (@elementus_io) January 29, 2019
There were some previous warnings that mentioned that almost 2k wallets were ar risk. Apparently, the hackers had access to the wallets of the exchange and were able to take funds out during several days without Cryptopia being able to stop it.
On January 28, the funds started to be moved in the morning and continued to be moved towards this address:
Etherscan = 0x3b46c790ff408e987928169bd1904b6d71c00305
However, it was not clear at the moment whether it was the exchange that was trying to secure the funds or just another attack that the platform was experiencing. And indeed, there was another attack. The report says that the exchange does not have control over their Ethereum wallets, meaning that they do not have access to their private keys and that the hacker controls them.
Cryptopia is a New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange that offered different coins to its users. This is not the first time that there is an attack on a cryptocurrency exchange. In general, crypto platforms are targeted by criminals due to the fact that is very easy to steal several funds in just an attack.
The exchange has already lost $16 million worth of Ethereum and ERC20 tokens. Some of these tokens were Centrality, Lisk ML, Dentacoin, Oyster Pearl, Daps, Golem, and OmiseGo, among others.
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