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The breach compromised hot wallets on Indodax, resulting in the loss of Bitcoin, Ether, Tron, Polygon, and Optimism. Indodax has temporarily suspended operations.
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Indonesian crypto exchange Indodax suffered a loss of approximately $22 million in various cryptocurrencies and has since disabled its mobile and web applications to investigate the breach.
On Sept. 11, multiple blockchain investigation firms, including PeckShield, Cyvers and SlowMist, alerted against an attack on Indodax’s hot wallets. The hacker stole large amounts of Bitcoin (BTC), Tron (TRX), Ether (ETH), Polygon (MATIC) and Optimism (OP).
Source: SlowMist
SlowMist’s independent investigation suggested a breach in Indodax’s withdrawal system, which allowed the hacker to withdraw funds from Indodax exchange’s hot wallet.
Shortly after, Indodax acknowledged the hack and informed users about a temporary shutdown of services. The company said in a statement that:
“Currently, we are conducting a complete maintenance to ensure the entire system is operating properly. During this maintenance process, the INDODAX web platform and application are temporarily inaccessible.”
However, the crypto exchange reassured investors about the safety of their crypto assets.
Indodax website was made inaccessible to users amid a $22 million hack investigation. Source: Indodex
Yosi Hammer, the head of AI at Cyvers, suspects the involvement of North Korea’s infamous cryptocurrency hackers, the Lazarus group. He told BSCN:
“The pattern and the characteristics of the (Indodax) attack highly resemble those of North Korea’s Lazarus Group.”
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.
This article first appeared at Cointelegraph.com News
