Hackers removed 23 million XRP tokens from the GateHub

The creative director of 2K / DENMARK company, Thomas Silkjer, said that as a result of the hacker attack, GateHub users lost 23 million Ripple XRP tokens (approximately $ 9.6 million at the current rate).

According to Silkiera, 80-90 user wallets were cracked in the course that began on June 1, and as a result, 23,200,000 XRPs were sent to 12 addresses. It soon became clear that out of this amount, 13.1 million XRP were on various exchanges and transaction mixing services.

“The attacker has received significant amounts from several XRP accounts. They were probably managed through Gatehub.net , ”said Silkjer.

According to him, among the recipients of stolen funds are the following services (figures are rounded):

• changelly.com: 6,000,000 XRP
• changenow.io: 3,250,000 XRP
• kucoin.com: 1,500,000 XRP
• huobi.com: 930,000 XRP
• exmo.me: 135,000 XRP
• hitbtc.com: 115,000 XRP
• binance.com: 110,000 XRP
• alfacashier.com: 50,000 XRP

Below is a diagram of the movement of the stolen funds:

Yellow color indicates wallets used for digital currency, blue is the victim, red is the wallets of the intruders

It is currently unknown how hackers attacked the service. Representatives of GateHub confirmed the problem, but could not provide more detailed information.

Recall that as a result of the March hacking of 20 million XRP and 3 million EOS, the large South Korean stock exchange Bithumb lost .

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