The CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange suffered a hacker attack, as a result of which about $28 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from the hot wallets ETH, TRON and Polygon. Suspicious activity was noticed at the exchange addresses PeckShield analysts.
In the cryptocurrency community, the exchange suspect in an exit scam. Meanwhile, according to the Arkham analytical platform, ConEx is actively transfers fundsremaining from compromised hot wallets to cold wallets.
Currently, the cryptocurrency exchange wallets contain assets worth almost $100 million, most of them are stored in a cold wallet with the address 0xf54…7E5d. These are mainly ETH worth $51.7 million and USDT worth $18.23 million.
The crypto exchange has not yet officially commented on the incident. However, users of the platform received a message that the wallets were “closed for maintenance” for an indefinite period. Deposits and withdrawals are not available.
Hacking and hacker attacks are a common occurrence in the cryptocurrency industry. According to the latest data, since the beginning of the year, the industry has experienced more than 200 incidents and lost assets worth about $1.25 billion, with more than $23 million stolen from projects in August alone.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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