🎯️WazirX was hacked, losing more than 230 million USD
💲According to sources from Cyvers Alerts, WazirX's Safe Multisig wallet on the Ethereum network has just been attacked. A total of 234.9 million USD in assets was transferred to the new address. This suspicious address swaps PEPE, GALA, and USDT into ETH and continues to trade other digital assets.
🔓According to Lookonchain, the attack took 17 types of assets. Some prominent names stolen include: 5.433 billion SHIB worth about 102 million USD, 15,298 ETH worth about 52.5 million USD, 20.5 million MATIC worth about 11.24 million USD, 640.27 billion PEPE is worth about 7.6 million USD, 5.79 million USDT is worth 135 million USD, 135 million GALA is worth 3.5 million USD.
🏅️Other unidentified assets worth about 25.78 million USD are continuing to be verified. Wallets with investment starting address "0x04b2" are selling these assets.
📌Transactions are made with the support of the TornadoCash platform. Cyvers Alerts detected and attempted to contact the project but received no response.
✅After the information of being hacked, the exchange's token dropped rapidly from 0.1689 USD to 0.1618 USD. Currently, the project team has no official response to the incident.
⏰WazirX is India's largest and fastest growing cryptocurrency exchange with over 200,000 app downloads with an average rating of 4.5. The project became better known when it opened up access to the global public at the beginning of the year.
