In a recent post, the Crypto.com company revealed that more than $30 million dollars were stolen from their accounts. We tell you all the info In this note!
In a blog post published on Thursday 20 in the morning, the cryptocurrency exchange company Crypto.com admitted that he had lost more than $30 million dollars in Bitcoin Y ethereum after being hacked January 17 this year. The company was quite criticized by its users, since it did not give details about the attack, which was confirmed on Wednesday the 19th.
The new post talks a little more about what losses the company suffered. Crypto.com confirmed that they had been removed in an unauthorized manner 4,836.26 ETH Y 443.93 BITC, equivalent to $15.2 million Y $18.6 million dollars respectively. But this was not all, since they also released the equivalent of $66,200 dollars for other currencies. The post also confirmed that 483 Crypto.com users had their account compromised.
In any case, the company was in charge of reimbursing the coins that each account lost. The last information you gave Crypto.com It explains a little more about what happened, but the exact method they used to attack the company is not known.
“Monday, January 17, 2022 at 12:46 AM UTC approximately, the risk monitoring systems of Crypto.com detected unauthorized activity on a small number of user accounts, where transactions were approved without the user entering the authentication check 2FA“, they explain in the publication. “This triggered an immediate response from multiple teams to assess the impact. All withdrawals on the platform were suspended during the investigation. All accounts found to be affected have been fully restored.”.
To prevent this from happening again, the company changed the two-step authentication system. Now users of Crypto.com must use a new system and tokens 2FA existing ones no longer function as authentication.
One of the biggest risks when betting on the cryptocurrency is that they hack the company. Crypto.com She is not the first to suffer one of these attacks. The cryptocurrency is gaining more and more value and that makes them a clear target for hackers. In 2021, there were more than 20 attacks where the hacker was able to get away with more than $10 million dollars and in six cases they were able to take more than $100 million.