![]() Experty and Bitcoin Suisse have sent out warnings to users not to send money to the wallet address in the email sent by the hacker. The hacker made off with a presumed $150,000 or more from 71 transactions. An ICO is similar to an Initial Public Offering (IPO), but instead of stocks, the buyer receive tokens in an online platform. The Ethereum wallet address that the perpetrator sent isn’t associated with Experty, who previously announced that they would only handle sales of tokens through Bitcoin Suisse AG, a regulated crypto-financial broker based in Switzerland. The actual Experty ICO is slated on January 31. The hacker sent emails with a false pre-ICO sale announcement of Experty tokens to users who signed up for notifications. ![]() On January 26 and 27, a hacker tricked Experty ICO (Initial Coin Offering) participants into sending Ethereum funds to the wrong wallet address. As of this writing, Coincheck is working with Japan’s Financial Services Agency to investigate the cause of the missing tokens. The heist affected about 260,000 users, but Coincheck said that the affected users will be repaid in Japanese Yen through the Coincheck Wallet. It abruptly froze most of its services, including deposits, withdrawals, and trade of almost all other cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin. The hack affected Bitcoin's value, resulting in a 5 percent drop on the morning of January 26.Ĭoincheck confirmed the incident in a blog post, but did not explain how the tokens were stolen. Two recent incidents of cryptocurrency theft has affected the price of Bitcoin, resulting in losses for initial coin offering (ICO) investors.įirst, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck suffered the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies after the exchange lost $532 million in digital assets, or about $420 million in NEM tokens. ![]() While cryptocurrency is gaining popularity as an investment vessel, recent reports of losses prove that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and its other equivalents are still volatile.
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