Poloniex

Unknown

Estimated loss

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VERDICT —UNRATED

Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.

▰ METHOD

Undisclosed

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

Digital currency exchange Poloniex, which trades bitcoin and other popular digital currencies such as litecoin, namecoin and dogecoin, has lost 12.3% of its total bitcoin supply in an attack. The exchange took to Bitcoin Forum on 4th March to report it had been compromised by a previously unknown vulnerability in its coding. Attack method (per SlowMist): Unknown. Reported loss: 97 BTC.

Primary source

https://www.coindesk.com/poloniex-loses-12-3-bitcoins-latest-bitcoin-exchange-hack ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record