VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
Root cause
Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Forensic narrative
The well-known darknet market Empire Market has closed its operations. When it exited, the website defrauded about 2638 bitcoins from 1.3 million users, worth nearly 30 million U.S. dollars. Attack method (per SlowMist): Scam. Reported loss: $ 30,000,000.
Primary source
https://news.bitcoin.com/sources-say-worlds-largest-darknet-empire-market-exit-scammed-30-million-in-bitcoin-stolen/ ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Empire Market
- bug_class
- rug
- date_occurred
- 2020-08-30
- loss_usd
- $30,000,000
- source_id
- sm:empire-market::2020-08-30
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