More than $400 million in crypto funds appear to have disappeared on Friday after FTX filed for bankruptcy, according to the crypto analytics firm Elliptic.
tweeted on Saturday
that the exchange had “initiated precautionary steps to move all digital assets to cold storage.” Cold storage refers to crypto wallets that are not connected to the internet to guard against hackers. Miller said that the firm is “investigating abnormalities with wallet movements,” but that the facts remain “unclear” and that FTX will “share more info as soon as we have it.”
FTX appeared to have verified rumors of a potential hack on the exchange’s Telegram channel and has asked customers to stay off the firm’s website and delete FTX apps, CoinDesk reported.The Washington Post could not confirm the details of message in the firm’s private Telegram channel.from FTX without permission, according to Elliptic. The tokens were quickly converted to ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, a popular technique used by hackers to prevent their funds from being seized.
“They certainly moved, we don’t know whether that was with permission or not — that’s not something we can determine from the blockchain alone,” said Tom Robinson, co-founder of Elliptic in an email.
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