HTX Loses $7.9M in Hot Wallet Breach Days After Huobi Rebrand
Justin Sun disclosed on Twitter/X that HTX, the exchange formerly known as Huobi, had lost $7.9 million to an attacker. The disclosure came less than twelve hours after Mixin Netwo…
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$200M Vanishes From Mixin Network After a Cloud Database Breach
Mixin Network disclosed a $200 million loss on the morning of September 25, 2023, tied to an attack that had actually taken place two days earlier, on Saturday. A few hours after t…
Inside Crypto's Phishing Epidemic — A Look at the Vectors Draining Wallets in Late 2023
Phishing remains a persistent threat in crypto, and recent weeks have delivered an unusually dense run of incidents. A compromised front-end , a wave of "pig butchering" schemes re…
Remitano Hot Wallets Drained for $2.7M, But Tether Freeze Limits Damage to $260K
Remitano became the third centralized exchange in a matter of weeks to suffer a major hot-wallet breach, following the earlier Stake and CoinEx incidents — a pattern that has led s…
CoinEx Hot Wallets Drained of $54.3M Across Thirteen Chains
Exchange CoinEx had its hot wallets emptied across thirteen different blockchains, with losses eventually totaling $54.3 million — a notable contrast to the exchange's own homepage…
Privacy Pools Pitches Zero-Knowledge Compliance as Tornado Cash's Successor
As cash gives way to digital, traceable payments, a comprehensive record of nearly every person's financial activity is being assembled in real time — a dynamic that has made priva…
Stake Casino's Hot Wallets Drained of $41 Million Across Three Chains
Online casino Stake had more than $41 million siphoned from its hot wallets in a rapid, multi-chain breach — a reminder that in crypto, the house does not always win. Cyvers was fi…
Rounding Error in Linear Pools Costs Balancer $2.1M Across Three Chains
Balancer, together with its partner protocol Beethoven X , lost a combined $2.1 million from v2 Boosted pools spread across Ethereum, Optimism, and Fantom the previous Sunday. Time…
Optimism Lender Exactly Protocol Drained of $7.2M via a Debt Manager Flaw
Exactly Protocol, a lending platform built on Optimism, became the latest in a string of layer-2 exploits this summer after attackers drained roughly $7.2 million in users' collate…
Shibarium's Troubled Debut Leaves $2.6M Stuck in Broken Bridge
Shiba Inu's Ethereum layer-2 network, Shibarium, ran into serious trouble almost immediately after launch, leaving about $2.6 million in user funds stranded in a malfunctioning bri…
Base DEX RocketSwap Loses $869K After Server Bruteforced for Private Keys
Base, Coinbase's new layer-2 network, is attracting attention for reasons the exchange probably didn't intend. RocketSwap, a project deployed on the chain, says it lost approximate…
Price-Manipulation Attack Depegs Zunami's zETH and UZD Stablecoins for $2.1M
Editor's note: This piece has been updated to remove a reference to Ackee Blockchain, which had audited an earlier version of Zunami's protocol — one that predated the addition of …
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