{"id":10802,"date":"2024-02-19T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fixedfloat-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-for-26-million\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:25:57","slug":"fixedfloat-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-for-26-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fixedfloat-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-for-26-million\/","title":{"rendered":"FixedFloat Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked for $26 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team at cryptocurrency exchange FixedFloat has confirmed a hack resulting in losses of at least $26 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello,<\/p>\n<p>We confirm that there was indeed a hack and theft of funds. We are not yet ready to make public comments on this matter, as we are working to eliminate all possible vulnerabilities, improve security, and investigate. Our service will be available again soon.<\/p>\n<p>We will\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FixedFloat\u26a1\ufe0f (@FixedFloat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FixedFloat\/status\/1759216185185288653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe confirm that there was indeed a hack and theft of funds. We are not yet ready to make public comments on this matter, as we are working to eliminate all possible vulnerabilities, improve security, and investigate,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since February 17, some platform users began reporting suspended transactions and missing assets. Initially, FixedFloat attributed these issues to technical problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More evidence fyi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Naj7vgxXkr\">pic.twitter.com\/Naj7vgxXkr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Officer&#8217;s Notes (@officer_cia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officer_cia\/status\/1759192387526492657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to on-chain data, the attackers withdrew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/ru\/explorer\/addresses\/btc\/bc1q2skp47p9f5mr4n4m27k66v0l68gh3xdd7ad4e5\">409 BTC<\/a> ($21.4 million at the time of writing) and <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x85c4ff99bf0ecb24e02921b0d4b5d336523fa085#analytics\">1728 ETH<\/a> ($5 million).<\/p>\n<p>FixedFloat is a non-custodial exchange that offers automated cryptocurrency exchanges without registration or <span data-descr=\"Know Your Customer \u2014 know your client\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span> procedures. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semrush.com\/analytics\/overview\/?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffixedfloat.com%2F&#038;db=us&#038;searchType=domain\">SEMrush<\/a>, the largest share of traffic to the platform comes from the United States (22%), the United Kingdom (9%), and France (8%).<\/p>\n<p>The exchange&#8217;s website currently displays a notice about technical work. The support service declined to comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Technical-work-is-underway-FixedFloat.webp\" alt=\"Technical-work-is-underway-FixedFloat\" class=\"wp-image-226323\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: FixedFloat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier reports from PeckShield indicated that the crypto industry suffered losses of $2.61 billion from hacks and scams in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/peckshield-reports-2-61-billion-loss-in-crypto-industry-due-to-hacks-and-scams\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at cryptocurrency exchange FixedFloat has confirmed a hack resulting in losses of at least $26 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum.\u00a0\u00a0 Hello, We confirm that there was indeed a hack and theft of funds. We are not yet ready to make public comments on this matter, as we are working to eliminate all possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,44],"class_list":["post-10802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"48","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}