Expert suspects $2 million theft from CoinSpot exchange after hack

Two hot wallets belonging to the Australian cryptocurrency exchange CoinSpot are believed to have suffered a theft of 1,282 ETH (~$2 million) as a result of a hacker attack. This development предположил on-chain sleuth ZachXBT.

As evidence, the specialist cited two transactions. In the первой transaction, 1262 ETH were sent to the адрес предполагаемого злоумышленника. Five minutes later последовал another similar transfer of 20.99 ETH.

According to Etherscan, the hacker then swapped them for WBTC, USDC and USDT, using Uniswap, THORchain and WBTC.

Earlier in October, ZachXBT detected the movement of 4800 BTC on the closed darknet market Abraxas.

Later he logged earnings of $768 000 for the creators of a fake Ledger Live app from the Microsoft Store.