{"id":34455,"date":"2024-07-18T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/major-hack-hits-indian-crypto-exchange-235m-stolen\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:13:57","slug":"major-hack-hits-indian-crypto-exchange-235m-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/major-hack-hits-indian-crypto-exchange-235m-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Hack Hits Indian Crypto Exchange, $235M Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Web3 security firm Cyvers has identified multiple suspicious transactions involving WazirX\u2019s Safe Multisig wallet on Ethereum. According to an X post, about $234.9 million from the Indian crypto exchange\u2019s wallet have been moved to a new address. Notably, each transaction\u2019s caller was funded by Tornado Cash, a decentralized protocol for private transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The new address has already converted a portion of the transferred funds into Ether (ETH), which is currently down to $3,440. The shifted assets included Tether (USDT), Pepe (PEPE), and Gala (GALA).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Over $210 Million Still to be Dumped<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Crypto sleuth ZachXBT, in a Telegram post within the \u201cInvestigations by ZachXBT\u201d channel, reported that the suspected primary attacker still has over $104 million in the new address. The wallet primarily consists of $100 million in Shiba Inu (SHIB), $52 million in ETH, and $11 million in Polygon (MATIC).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the wallet holds $4.7 million in FLOKI, $3.2 million in Fantom (FTM), $2.8 million in Chainlink (LINK), and $2.3 million in Fetch.ai (FET), along with smaller amounts in various other tokens.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this security breach, WazirX has temporarily halted the withdrawal of cryptocurrencies and Indian rupees on its platform. The exchange announced in an X post that they are \u201cactively investigating the incident\u201d and will provide updates as the situation evolves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-org-3-item-ins box-100 relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-items box-100 relative\">\n<div class=\"box-100 space-org-3-item relative border-tb mt-1 \">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-ins box-100 relative\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-terms box-25 relative\">\n<div class=\"space-org-3-item-terms-ins box-100 text-center relative\"> <strong>5BTC or 111% + 111 Free Spins!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>New players only. Exclusive 111% Welcome Bonus + 111 Free Spins<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/crypto\/major-hack-hits-indian-crypto-exchange-235m-stolen\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Crypto News &#8211; iGaming.org ) Web3 security firm Cyvers has identified multiple suspicious transactions involving WazirX\u2019s Safe Multisig wallet on Ethereum. According to an X post, about $234.9 million from the Indian crypto exchange\u2019s wallet have been moved to a new address. Notably, each transaction\u2019s caller was funded by Tornado Cash, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":34456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}