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
Trade.io confirmed via their Medium blog that someone or some entity gained access to the assets, resulting in over 50 million in Trade (TIO) tokens being stolen from the firm’s cold storage wallets. The 50 million tokens are valued at $7.5 million at the current $0.15 price per TIO. The ongoing investigation has revealed that some of the TIO tokens had made their way to cryptocurrency exchanges Bancor and Kucoin. Kucoin has suspended TIO transactions, while Bancor has permanently removed TIO. Attack method (per SlowMist): Unknown. Reported loss: 50,000,000 TIO.
Primary source
https://www.jinse.com/lives/59325.htm ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- TRADE.IO
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2018-10-20
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:trade-io::2018-10-20
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