{"id":88834,"date":"2023-12-29T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88834"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:26:48","slug":"catalx-exchange-suspends-trading-and-withdrawals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/catalx-exchange-suspends-trading-and-withdrawals\/","title":{"rendered":"CatalX Exchange Suspends Trading and Withdrawals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian bitcoin exchange CatalX has frozen trading, as well as deposits and withdrawals, following a security breach. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/catalx-cts-ltd-announces-security-breach-loss-of-crypto-assets-and-ongoing-investigation-805146446.html\">stated<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Management suspects that an employee may be involved in the incident. The platform acknowledged the loss of some crypto assets, but did not specify the amount.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe company is currently conducting an investigation into losses and has hired Deloitte LLP to provide certain [\u2026] services,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of writing, CatalX&#8217;s site carried a disclaimer stating that the exchange is experiencing technical difficulties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49-1024x367.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49\" class=\"wp-image-223152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49-1024x367.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-29-v-09.20.49.png 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalyx.io\/\">site<\/a> CatalX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On December 21, 2023, the Alberta Securities Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/asc.ca\/-\/media\/ASC-Documents-part-1\/Notices-Decisions-Orders-Rulings\/Enforcement\/2023\/12\/CatalX-CTS-Ltd-ORDER-2023-12-21-61310061.ashx\">ordered<\/a> the company to cease trading and opened an investigation into the platform.<\/p>\n<p>CatalX was founded in 2018 and holds a license from <span data-descr=\"Centre for Financial Transactions Analysis and Reporting of Canada\" class=\"old_tooltip\">FINTRAC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinex-confirms-hack-of-hot-wallets\">reported<\/a> issues at CoinEx. According to preliminary estimates, the incident affected funds in ETH, TRON and MATIC.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on-chain investigator ZachXBT suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/expert-suspects-2-million-theft-from-coinspot-exchange-after-hack\">the theft of 1282 ETH<\/a> from hot wallets of the CoinSpot exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Bitcoin exchange CatalX has frozen trading and deposits and withdrawals after a security breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88835,"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":[771,1166,44],"class_list":["post-88834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-canada","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834","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=88834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88836,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834\/revisions\/88836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}