Singapore's cryptobirth Bitrue reported a hacker attack, which resulted in the attackers succeeding in removing the digital assets Cardana (ADA) and the RR-Xle token.

It’s hot wallet 9.3 million XRP and 2.5 million ADA to different exchanges.

– Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) 27 worm 2019 r.

According to representatives of the trading platform, on the night of June 27, the hacker took advantage of a vulnerability in the risk control system of the platform, gaining access to accounts of about 90 Bitrue users. Thanks to this, the hacker managed to withdraw 9.3 million XRP (almost $ 4 million) and 2.5 million ADA coins (about $ 230 thousand at the current exchange rate) to various exchanges.

Dear Bitrue Users,

First of all, it’s not a problem.

– Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) 27 worm 2019 r.

“Dear Bitrue users. First of all, please let me assure you that the situation is under control. 100% of the lost funds will be returned to users. We review our security policies and measures to ensure that this does not happen again. ”

In addition, Bitrue stressed that the attack was soon identified and neutralized. The exchange also thanked Huobi Global, Bittrex and ChangeNow platforms for freezing assets related to malicious actions.

The attack was temporarily suspended on Bitrue. Receiving the alerted for We Exchanges about the situation The, and wish to the extend Our thanks to @HuobiGlobal , @BittrexExchange and @ChangeNOW_io for Their help in freezing the funds and the affected accounts.

– Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) 27 worm 2019 r.

In connection with the current situation, the stock exchange began maintenance and investigation of the incident, having gone offline.

Please note that there is no need for maintenance. We apologize for this miscommunication with our users.

– Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) 27 worm 2019 r.

In addition, the exchange said that it had already turned to local law enforcement agencies for help and promised to resume trading operations soon.

We have also been contacted by the authorities in the field of transport. We will update everyone.

– Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) 27 worm 2019 r.

According to CoinMarketCap , Bitrue is in 78th place in terms of trading volume.

Recall that Bitrue enjoys considerable popularity in the Ripple community , since on this site the underlying asset is the XRP token.

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