JUST IN: 5,000 Ethereum Allegedly Stolen from Huobi’s Hot Wallets!

Blockchain security platform Cyvers Alerts claimed in its post on its Twitter account that one of the hot wallets of the Huobi exchange was hacked.

Accordingly, the attacker who hacked the wallet of the HTX (Huobi) exchange stole 5,000 Ethereum (ETH).

“Red alert! We detected a suspicious transaction.

Although we tried to reach out, we did not receive any response. However, an attacker took 5,000 ETH (worth $7.9 million) from Huobi Global’s hot wallet.

We confirmed that one of their hot wallets was compromised, resulting in a loss of $7.9 million.

Hacker address etherscan: ‘0xdb1D74467c9042517A354304256E0d658D8AEC83’

Huobi Global offers a 5% reward to the hacker.”

🚨Red Code🚨Yesterday, our ML-powered system detected a suspicious transaction involving @HuobiGlobal and @HTX_Global.
Despite our attempts to reach out, we received no response. An EOA received 5K $ETH $7.9M from @HuobiGlobal‘s hot wallet.

🔍 This morning, we spotted… pic.twitter.com/3oqHhAVi8P

— 🚨 Cyvers Alerts 🚨 (@CyversAlerts) September 25, 2023

Update:

Justin Sun made the following statement about the hack attack:

HTX lost 5,000 ETH (worth $8 million) due to the hacker attack. Huobi HTX has fully assumed the losses caused by this attack and successfully resolved all related issues. All user assets are safe and the platform operates completely normally.

火币HTX因黑客攻击而损失了5,000个ETH（价值800万美元）。火币HTX已经全额承担了由此次攻击造成的损失，并成功解决了所有相关问题。所有用户资产都是安全的，平台运转完全正常。

— H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@justinsuntron) September 25, 2023