BitMart, a cryptocurrency trading platform, confirmed a “large-scale security breach” over the weekend, saying hackers stole about $ 150 million in digital assets.
“The affected ETH hot wallet and the BSC hot wallet transfer a small percentage of assets to BitMart. All of our other ‘wallets’ are safe and secure,” BitMart initially said. updates according to its evolution “.
BitMart has temporarily suspended withdrawals “until further notice”.
However, blockchain security and data analytics firm PeckShield – which has been focusing on the breach since Saturday night – estimated the hacker booty at nearly $ 200 million and provided a detailed list of outflows containing about $ 100 million. $ 96 million in Ethereum blockchain losses and $ 96 million in assets loss in Binance blockchain.
The stolen booty contained assets of nearly 50 tokens, including Binance Coin, Safemoon and Shiba Inu.
Total estimated loss: ~200M (~100M on @ethereum and ~96M on @BinanceChain ). (Previously we only counted the loss on @ethereum). And here is the list of affected assets/amounts on @BinanceChain pic.twitter.com/cXXApDFtd7
— PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) December 5, 2021
Estimate loss of @BitMartExchange: ~$100M. Here is the list of the transferred-out assets and their amounts pic.twitter.com/mUKYsuTxYZ
— PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) December 5, 2021
This theft seems to be one of the largest that has occurred in a central cryptocurrency exchange.
In August, a hacker stole more than $ 600 million in cryptocurrencies from the DeFi Poly Networks platform, but later returned all the booty, claiming that he had taken the assets only “for fun” and that he wanted to point out the security gap.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin, after a difficult weekend, during which it lost even more than a fifth of its value, continues to decline with losses of 1.4% to $ 48,580, while earlier it fell by 5% .
According to traders, the fall in the weekend is linked to a wider reluctance of investors to take risks in traditional markets due to concerns about the Omicron mutation, combined with the low trading liquidity that tends to affect cryptocurrencies on weekends.
The cryptocurrency market posted a total loss on Monday, with Ethereum losing 2.45% in the last 24 hours, to $ 4,050.
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