Who invests in cryptocurrency He woke up this Saturday (22) frightened to come across the devaluation of the main cryptors. The fall in the virtual currency market began after attacking hacker to Bytbi, the world’s second largest brokerage out -of -encrypture brokerage.
In 24 hours, the bitcoin (BTC) fell 2.3%, quoted at US $ 96,858.80. Already the ethereum (ETH) falls 3.4% in the last 24 hours, quoted at US $ 2,733.99.
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Bybit: Understand what happened
On Friday (21), the cold wallet (cold walletnot connected to the Internet) of Ethereum from Bybit was hacked. In total, 401,346 were lost in eth tokens, The equivalent of US $ 1 billion in current quotes.
The market of cryptocurrency It operated on the rise before the hack and the value even exceeded $ 1.4 billion. Despite the still preliminary information, this may be the largest hacker attack with stolen funds from the history of the digital asset market.
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According to initial information, criminals would be using portfolio mixers to make it difficult to track tokens. Remember that the cold wallets They are considered safer because they are not connected with the internet.
As the attack happened in this type of specific portfolio of the Broker for ETH, this means that the failure has only affected bybit’s own assets without compromising users’ deposits.
With information from Money Times.
