“We regret to inform our users that Maestro has been compromised this evening. We quickly took action and disabled all functions,” the Maestro team announced.
The company promised that victims would receive a full refund. Trading via bot is currently temporarily disabled. The developers clarified that the attack affected the bot’s router, but did not spread to wallets.
Maestro later said that trading could soon resume as usual. However, tokens with pools on SushiSwap, ShibaSwap and PancakeSwap will remain temporarily unavailable for now.
According to Immunefi, in the third quarter of 2023, the number of hacks and frauds in the crypto industry increased by 153% – from 30 incidents during the same period in 2022 to 76 in 2023. Company specialists report that since the beginning of the year, hackers and scammers have stolen $1.39 billion, with $685 million stolen in the third quarter.
According to analysts from The Block, the Philippine cryptocurrency exchange Coins.ph was subject to a hacker attack, which led to the loss of more than $6 million in XRP coins.
Source: Bits
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