{"id":36779,"date":"2021-02-20T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36779"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:01:38","slug":"media-hackers-withdraw-45000-in-crypto-assets-from-non-operational-cryptopia-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-hackers-withdraw-45000-in-crypto-assets-from-non-operational-cryptopia-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Hackers Withdraw $45,000 in Crypto Assets From Non-Operational Cryptopia Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors moved crypto assets from the New Zealand-based bitcoin exchange Cryptopia, which has been non-operational since 2019 and is in liquidation. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/crime\/124249161\/assets-worth-62000-allegedly-stolen-from-liquidated-company-cryptopia\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">Stuff<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, American company Stakenet received on February 1 a notice of withdrawal from the cold wallet of XSN tokens worth NZD 62,000 ($45,000).<\/p>\n<p>The wallet has not been used since Cryptopia&#8217;s January 2019 hack. It holds crypto assets totaling $1.97 million.<\/p>\n<p>The liquidator Grant Thornton said the withdrawal was unauthorized. The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf this unauthorized transaction occurred under Grant Thornton&#8217;s oversight, the company will have to explain why it could not ensure the security of users&#8217; funds,\u201d said a representative of Stakenet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in December, Grant Thornton <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/auditors-confirm-start-of-claims-process-for-cryptopia-users\">began accepting claims for refunds<\/a> from Cryptopia account holders.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers withdrew crypto assets from the New Zealand-based bitcoin exchange Cryptopia, which has been non-operational since 2019 and is in liquidation. Stuff reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,1154,1736],"class_list":["post-36779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-crimes","tag-cryptopia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36781,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions\/36781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}