Victims of the 3Commas API leak are asking for refunds and an apology from the platform cryptocurrency trader for lying to them about the entire experience.
In the last two months there has been a continuous tug of war between 3Commas and the alleged victims of unauthorized operations coming from their accounts.
3Commas and its CEO, Yuriy Sorokin, had strongly denied that any hack or breach had occurred and had denied that it could be a internal work of an employee who had gone crazy. Instead, suggested that any leaked APIs were the result of client spoofing.
you gonna delete these? pic.twitter.com/BwbJkJy8oC
—Daniel Roberts (@readDanwrite) December 28, 2022
are you going to delete this?
However, On December 28, Sorokin finally admitted that a major API leak had occurred from the company, confirming that a database of API keys shared by a hacker was legitimate.:
“We have seen the hacker’s message and can confirm that the data in the files is true. As an immediate action, we have requested that Binance, Kucoin and other supported exchanges revoke all keys that were connected to 3Commas.”
“We did everything we could to investigate an inside jobsince it was always a possible scenario and was on our watch list, but no evidence was found for it,” Sorokin added.
The community has been baffled by this startling admission, considering that 3Commas had on December 11 labeled customer reports of a leak as “false rumors shared by bad faith actors using falsified evidence.”.
“Just a reminder: For the past two months, they have blamed the victims of the hack. They have smeared the victims as ‘actors in bad faith’ and alleged that they ‘falsified evidence’, when it turns out that 3Commas was the one who acted in bad faith, lying and falsifying evidence,” Twitter user Pledditor wrote..
The popular cryptocurrency trader CoinMamba tweeted that they “kept lying and saying it was our fault instead of taking responsibility and avoiding [sic] more exploits. Are you going to refund users now?”.
“Congratulations, you idiots are what’s wrong with space,” said blockchain detective ZachXBTafter having been posting about the API leak for weeks.
4/ 3Commas finally acknowledged the leak but the damage had already been done. For weeks they have been blaming its users and accepting zero responsibility.
Make sure to never give incompetent clowns like @3commas_io your business ever again. https://t.co/LyNvar7LST pic.twitter.com/RkS6ZgCZEN
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) December 28, 2022
4/ 3Commas finally acknowledged the leak, but the damage had already been done. For weeks they have been blaming their users and accepting zero responsibility. Make sure you never give your business to incompetent clowns like @3commas_io again. https://t.co/LyNvar7LST pic.twitter.com/RkS6ZgCZEN
The comments were just as aggressive in response to 3Commas’ tweet confirming the leak; turgut_oztunc wrote: “They are very funny. We will see each other [en] the courts if they don’t recover our funds as soon as possible”.
This whole company should be held accountable and shut down immediately
— (@cryptaveli) December 28, 2022
This entire company should be held accountable and shut down immediately
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