In a series of tweets by Whale Alert, an advanced crypto tracker showed how crypto robbers transferred over a million XRP stolen from Kucoin to crypto exchanges like BYEX, Binance, in more than eight transactions at the time this report was written.
Here are some of the transactions captured by Nairametrics:
⚠ 66,882 #XRP (16,152 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Kucoin Hack 2020 to #BYEX
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 29, 2020
⚠ 119,271 #XRP (28,932 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Kucoin Hack 2020 to #BYEX
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 29, 2020
⚠ 119,271 #XRP (28,932 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Kucoin Hack 2020 to #BYEX
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 29, 2020
Recall Nairametrics about two days ago broke the news when KuCoin Global CEO, Johnny Lyu in a statement disclosed yesterday about a reported hack lately in detail after private keys linked to crypto wallets got exposed and might have affected $150 million in user funds.
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He added by saying the findings of the internal security audit report, revealed part of Bitcoin, ERC-20, and other tokens in KuCoin’s hot wallets were transferred out of the crypto exchange, which contained few parts of the total assets holdings.
More details will be released as the story is developing …
