Vietnamese cryptocurrency exchange VinDAX hacked. Hacking again – this time they hacked the Vietnamese VinDAX exchange, stole half a million dollars in different tokens. The Block writes about this with reference to the official confirmation of information by the owners of the platform in their Telegram channel.
According to the publication, a total of 23 different cryptocurrencies were withdrawn, the incident occurred three days ago.
VinDAX’s core business is conducting IEO – right now one token sale is relevant on the exchange, and five are planned for the near future time.
Despite the fact that the management of the site announced full recovery and control of the situation, it turned out that the exchange sent hacked project managers asking for emails tokens to fulfill obligations to investors.
Note that this is the seventh hack this year, and here’s how many have been stolen since the beginning of 2019:
At the same time, in total, about $ 1.4 billion has been stolen from crypto exchanges today.
Moral: do not hold on exchanges more than you need for trading – this cryptocurrency is not yours there.
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