{"id":28360,"date":"2020-09-08T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28360"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:17:30","slug":"slovak-bitcoin-exchange-eterbase-hacked-losses-exceed-5-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/slovak-bitcoin-exchange-eterbase-hacked-losses-exceed-5-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak bitcoin exchange Eterbase hacked; losses exceed $5.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 8, unknown attackers hacked the Slovakia-based cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase. The platform said user funds in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, XRP, Tezos and Algorand were stolen, totaling more than $5.3 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/eterbasenews\/639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430<\/a> addresses to which the attackers moved assets from the platform&#8217;s hot wallets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear users, the exchange is currently in maintenance mode because our hot wallets were compromised last night:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XWZZoWxLd0\">https:\/\/t.co\/XWZZoWxLd0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the inconvenience and please have some patience untill we solve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ETERBASE (@ETERBASE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ETERBASE\/status\/1303229581814640640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shown below in the screenshot are the balances of the hot wallets at the time of the breach:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109553\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.37.16.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0446\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0436\u0430 Eterbase. \u0423\u0449\u0435\u0440\u0431 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0432\u044b\u0441\u0438\u043b $5,3 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" width=\"1280\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.37.16.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.37.16-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.37.16-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.37.16-768x256.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Bloxy.info, Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens were moved to Uniswap:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109554\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.38.55.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0446\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0436\u0430 Eterbase. \u0423\u0449\u0435\u0440\u0431 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0432\u044b\u0441\u0438\u043b $5,3 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" width=\"1014\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.38.55.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.38.55-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020-09-08-15.38.55-768x424.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gfoundinshit\/4584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e<\/a> of the Telegram channel Goldfoundinshit TM, losses in Bitcoin could be much larger:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abJudging by the transactions, there is another wallet, probably belonging to the exchange. The amount of funds transferred from it at the same time as the wallet mentioned in the Telegram channel of the exchange is 152 BTC\u00bb, wrote him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives of Eterbase said they had contacted all centralized exchanges to which the stolen funds were sent.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be available after the investigation, they added.<\/p>\n<p>Trading on the exchange has been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, an unknown hacker emptied the Bitcoin wallet of British fintech Cashaa, operator of the Cashaa cryptocurrency exchange. The loss amounted to about 336 BTC (about $3.1 million at the time).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 8, unknown attackers hacked the Slovakia-based cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase. The platform said user funds in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, XRP, Tezos and Algorand were stolen, totaling more than $5.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,1154],"class_list":["post-28360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28360","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=28360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28362,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28360\/revisions\/28362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}