Risky Bulletin Newsletter
September 15, 2023
Risky Biz News: Lazarus steals $54 million from CoinEx crypto-exchange
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North Korean hackers known as the Lazarus Group have stolen $54 million from the CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange.
The hack took place on Tuesday, September 12. In a statement, CoinEx said the hackers identified a leak of some of its private keys and used them to steal Ether, Tron, and Matic assets from some of the company's hot wallets.
The company didn't formally link the hack to North Korea, but a blockchain investigator named ZachXBT found that some of CoinEx's stolen funds were sent to the same address that is storing funds stolen from the recent hack of the Stake.com crypto-gambling site.