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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 10 2019, @03:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the poof-and-they're-gone dept.

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Cryptocurrency wallet GateHub hacked, nearly $10 million stolen

In a “preliminary statement” published on its blog on Thursday, cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub has warned that over 100 customers have had their ledger wallets hacked and funds stolen.

Dear Valued Customers,

Recently, we have been notified by our customers and community members about funds on their XRP Ledger wallets being stolen and immediately started monitoring network activity and conducted an extensive internal investigation.

Although we have not identified any action or omission by GateHub that may have facilitated or allowed this apparent theft to occur, we apologize deeply to all of our customers for this issue and pledge to get to the bottom of it.

At the moment we estimate that approximately 100 XRP Ledger wallets were compromised. So far it looks like all the victims had their XRP Ledger wallets hosted on GateHub, but we cannot yet rule out that some wallets were not.

GateHub says it has contacted affected users, suggesting that they transfer any existing balances in their Ripple coin (XRP) wallets to a hosted wallet.

Some reports estimate that millions of Ripple coins have been stolen in the heist.

The acknowledgement by GateHub that there appears to have been a serious security breach coincided with the publication of a technical report by GateHub community member Thomas Silkjær.

That report claims 23.2 million Ripple coins (estimated to be worth nearly US $9.7 million) had been stolen from 80-90 GateHub accounts, with just over half of the booty already laundered through exchanges and mixer services.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 10 2019, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 10 2019, @03:09PM (#853705)

    For some strange reason, a lot of people are willing to exchange stuff of value for miscellaneous cryptocurrencies

    Because somewhere in all of this, a market is made because the drugs trade needs a semi stable means of exchange.
    For example, Chinese traders selling drugs for buttcoin to US customers, Afghanis selling drugs for buttcoin to Chinese traders, Afghanis in the US selling buttcoin for dollars to Afghanis back home in the guise of remittances, and finally Afghanis in the US selling buttcoin for dollars to US customers who want to buy drugs, offered by Chinese traders who accept buttcoin.