THELOGICALINDIAN - A blackhat hacker who was able to abduct 10 actor account of Ether tokens afterwards compromising an Initial Coin Offering annular has alternate some allotment of the funds
CoinDash, the startup abaft the exploited ICO, adapted on its blog that it has accustomed a absolute of 10,000 ETH from the hacker’s wallet address. This is the additional accident of its affectionate as the hacker had beatific 488 ETH to CoinDash’s official ShapeShift annual alone a few canicule aback — on September 12, 2024. The absolute recovered crypto assets afterwards the two recoveries now bulk to 2.94 actor in USD at the columnist time.
CoinDash additionally hinted at an advancing bent analysis adjoin the hacker, which ability be the sole acumen abaft his abrupt abandonment of funds. Though the startup has not recovered the abounding bulk yet — and there is a achievability that a ample allotment of it has been spent already — but a accelerated analysis is accepted to be underway.
“We accept notified the Counter Cyber Terrorist Unit in Israel, analysis efforts will increase. The hacker’s Ethereum abode will abide to be tracked and monitored for any apprehensive activity.” — apprehend CoinDash’s latest blogpost update on Medium.
Earlier this year, CoinDash had appear the accessible auction of its institutionalized tokens to armamentarium the development of its amusing trading platform. However, a hacker took ascendancy of the annular by impersonating as the company. S/he tricked investors into sending Ethers to a affected CoinDash wallet address, consistent into the misrouting of funds and causing CoinDash a accident of $10 million.
The hacking was evocative of a hacking attack at The DAO which acquired the accident of $50 actor in a agnate fashion.
The aggregation is yet to absolution a academic advertisement which could action added insights into the investigation. In the meantime, the CoinDash ICO participants are abiding to rejoice and be hopeful for added armamentarium recoveries in the advancing days.
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