AuStecaps claim that Crypto.com had lost $ 15 million in incidents when users reported suspicious activities -

crypto.com, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, experienced an incident on January 17th when some of his users reported strange activities in their accounts. The stock exchange confirmed the event and immediately carried out an investigation in which it explained that all funds were safe. However, reports from the security and blockchain examination company Certik and Peckshield point out that some funds have been removed from stock exchange money exchanges.

crypto.com exposes payments after suspicious activities have been reported

crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange, Suspending normal payouts after customers have reported that they have suspected Have experienced activities in relation to their accounts. In its first explanations, the stock exchange informed customers that all funds were safe. The reports led to an improvement in the security measures for access to the accounts, so that all customers have to register with their accounts again. The two-factor authentication (2FA) for all accounts also had to be reset.

some customers complained not to be able to reset their two-factor authentication key, and others declared that it was unable to access the stock exchange. After the stock exchange resumed, Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, offered a report about what had happened and explained that the total loss of the withdrawal infrastructure was about 14 hours. The stock exchange introduced a new security measure: Customers cannot unsubscribe from addresses on the whitelist in the first 24 hours after registration.

Marszalek that no user funds were lost after its examination.

While Crypto.com repeatedly stated that no user funds were affected, there are contradictory statements on this topic. Certik and Peckshield, two security and blockchain testing companies, reported something else. Spitzschild specified The stock exchange had lost $ 4.6,000 ETH during the event, and that half of these funds was washed with tornado.cash, a protocol based on anonymity that enables users to carry out private transactions.

Certik, another auditing company, confirmed that the money is sent to tornado.cash became. Even more important, certik informed follower it had put together a list of user addresses that were allegedly affected by the event, and the number of ether, which of each of these accounts have been deducted. The company stated that 282 accounts were affected.

The cause of the event is still unknown. Neither Peckshield nor Certik have finally explained what happened, and Crypto.com is going through an internal investigation on this matter at the time of writing.

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Sergio Göschenko

sergio is a cryptocurrency journalist based in Venezuela. He describes himself as late in the game and entered the cryptosphere when the price increase took place in December 2017. He has a background as a computer engineer, lives in Venezuela and is affected by the cryptocurrency boom on a social level. It offers a different perspective on the crypto success and how it helps those who have no bank account and are under-supplied.

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