Exploitor's Ether haul is worth approximately $288 million at peak market costs.
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The hacker who operated the now-bankrupt FTX alternative last week made a handsome fortune that propelled them to Ether() whale reputation.
Just an afternoon after embattled FTX alternative demanded Chapter 11 financial ruin, its wallets were depleted for over $663 million in various crypto properties, to blockchain intelligence agency Elliptic.
Elliptic suspected that $477 million was stolen, with a large portion of those tokens then turned into ETH, while $186 million with the actual value of over a hundred separate tokens was allegedly moved into a stable garage via FTX itself.
As suggested via Cointelegraph on November 15, the attacker was in what analysts call "on-chain spoofing".
According to blockchain protection firm Beosin, the attacker has made a few cross-chain trades and transactions over the past day and currently holds around $338 million in crypto assets as of November 15.
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FTX Accounts Drainer (0x59AB...32b) has performed multiple switch and connection string operations over the past day and currently holds approximately $338,598,702 worth of personal effects.
The majority of funds are held under 0x59ABf3837Fa962d6853b4Cc0a19513AA031fd32b.
Current balance:
— Beosin Alert (@BeosinAlert)
Included is a whopping 228,523 ETH pocket deals with , worth around 288 USD.
This makes the account dubbed the "FTX Accounts Drainer" the thirty-fifth largest Ethereum holder by variety of ETH held.
CoinCarp's Ethereum rich list, the top holder is the Beacon Chain deposit contract which consists of approximately 15 million ETH. Moreover, the maximum of them in pinnacle 20 are cryptographic exchanges, layer 2 protocols and .
The top 20 ETH wallets retain 27.7% of all circulating supply and the pinnacle 50 retains a third of all ETH.
Exploits have descended on every FTX and FTX.US, leading many to invest in them. The director of security operations at analytics organization Certik, Hugh Brooks, alluded to on-chain evidence suggesting as much. He told Cointelegraph on Nov. 15 that unless there is a personal key compromise, an insider with access to these finance-displacing wallets cannot be ruled out.
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Ether prices have not been impacted by the potential unloading of its thirty-fifth largest holder flooding the markets.
At the time of writing, ETH was buying and selling flat daily at $1,260, at CoinGecko. The asset has lost around 23% since the start of the FTX debacle.
Exploitor's Ether haul is worth approximately $288 million at peak market costs.
News
The hacker who operated the now-bankrupt FTX alternative last week made a handsome fortune that propelled them to Ether() whale reputation.
Just an afternoon after embattled FTX alternative demanded Chapter 11 financial ruin, its wallets were depleted for over $663 million in various crypto properties, to blockchain intelligence agency Elliptic.
Elliptic suspected that $477 million was stolen, with a large portion of those tokens then turned into ETH, while $186 million with the actual value of over a hundred separate tokens was allegedly moved into a stable garage via FTX itself.
As suggested via Cointelegraph on November 15, the attacker was in what analysts call "on-chain spoofing".
According to blockchain protection firm Beosin, the attacker has made a few cross-chain trades and transactions over the past day and currently holds around $338 million in crypto assets as of November 15.
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FTX Accounts Drainer (0x59AB...32b) has performed multiple switch and connection string operations over the past day and currently holds approximately $338,598,702 worth of personal effects.
The majority of funds are held under 0x59ABf3837Fa962d6853b4Cc0a19513AA031fd32b.
Current balance:
— Beosin Alert (@BeosinAlert)
Included is a whopping 228,523 ETH pocket deals with , worth around 288 USD.
This makes the account dubbed the "FTX Accounts Drainer" the thirty-fifth largest Ethereum holder by variety of ETH held.
CoinCarp's Ethereum rich list, the top holder is the Beacon Chain deposit contract which consists of approximately 15 million ETH. Moreover, the maximum of them in pinnacle 20 are cryptographic exchanges, layer 2 protocols and .
The top 20 ETH wallets retain 27.7% of all circulating supply and the pinnacle 50 retains a third of all ETH.
Exploits have descended on every FTX and FTX.US, leading many to invest in them. The director of security operations at analytics organization Certik, Hugh Brooks, alluded to on-chain evidence suggesting as much. He told Cointelegraph on Nov. 15 that unless there is a personal key compromise, an insider with access to these finance-displacing wallets cannot be ruled out.
Related:
Ether prices have not been impacted by the potential unloading of its thirty-fifth largest holder flooding the markets.
At the time of writing, ETH was buying and selling flat daily at $1,260, at CoinGecko. The asset has lost around 23% since the start of the FTX debacle.
