Cryptopia compromised in another attack by hackers; loses 180k worth of Ethereum [ETH]

Cryptopia, the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange which reported a security breach earlier this month, continues to lose its funds to hackers, according to a report by Elementus, a next-generation blockchain analysis company. The report states that over 17k wallets were drained of funds on January 28, 2019. It further states that the hack, which started at 6:58 AM, went on through-out the day.

The exchange platform has lost around 1,675 ETH to the latest attack, which is close to 180K. According to the report, 5,240 wallets that were affected during the previous security breach, were hit by the hackers again. The report states that the users of these were “unaware of the breach” as cryptocurrencies were added to the accounts.

Furthermore, some of the wallets that were affected by the latest hack were previously identified to be vulnerable to an attack. The Ethereum address to which the stolen tokens were sent to is being identified as 0x3b46c790ff408e987928169bd1904b6d71c00305.

Source: Etherscan

The report stated:

“Initially it wasn’t clear whether this might be Cryptopia securing their remaining funds. But by 9:50pm this evening, we got our confirmation that this was indeed the same thief. At that time, the incoming transfers stopped and the combined funds were moved into the address, the same wallet that currently stores the other stolen Cryptopia funds.”

The report claims that the exchange platform does not have control over their Ethereum wallets’ private keys and that the hacker is the one in control. It also states that users of the platform continue to deposit Ethereum tokens in their wallets, irrespective of the hack. The company also believes that the all the funds sent to the exchange platform would wind up in the hackers control until they’ve been caught.

Based on the firm’s previous report on the hack, Cryptopia lost over $16 million worth of Ethereum and ERC20 tokens. These funds were stolen from a total of 76k different Ethereum wallets. Additionally, the largest amounts of funds were stolen in Ethereum, Dentacoin, Oyster Perl, Lisk ML and Centrality.