Hackers Brazenly Move $375,000 of Cryptopia’s Stolen Ether
By CCN: Whale Alert, an account which automatically and manually notes large crypto transfers for Twitter followers, stated this morning that slightly more than $250,000 of stolen Cryptopia ether moved today.
$250k Parked, $125k Moved to EtherDelta
1,000 ether moved to 0x7d90b19c1022396b525c64ba70a293c3142979b7, an address which holds no other tokens. Roughly the same amount of ether previously left the wallet. The Cryptopia hacker seems unable to decide what to do with them.
⚠ ⚠ ⚠ 500 #ETH 126,218 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Cryptopia Hack to EtherDeltahttps://t.co/gM3VlOZ9EM
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) May 21, 2019
Interestingly, within the past hour at press time, one of the addresses associated with this one moved 499 ether to EtherDelta. Address 0x338fDf0D792F7708d97383EB476e9418B3C16ff1
made this transaction to the exchange which was previously fined for dealing in unregistered securities.
⚠ ⚠ ⚠ 498.99937 #ETH (124,939 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Cryptopia Hack to #Etherdelta
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) May 21, 2019
Cryptopia lost around $15 million in a major hack earlier this year. More recently they’ve gone into liquidation and warned customers not to expect all of their funds back. Reportedly, the exchange could not meet its debt obligations as a result of the hack, which saw its user interest, trust, and volume plummet. One question is why user funds would have been available to the exchange for satisfying debts, as most eloquently stated in this tweet:
This is blatant misappropriation of funds and should be handled as such. You all should face jail time. Why shortly before the audits were done you had the hack? Guess we never owned the coins on your exhange did we?
— Kai (@KNietner) May 17, 2019