The crypto exchange Huobi Global suffers an $ 8 million hack

• htx (formerly Huobi Global) was chopped for $ 8 million when a hacker 5,000 ether (Eth) steel.
• Justin Sun confirmed the hack today and pointed out that the stock exchange offered the hacker a "white-hat bonus" of 5 % for the return of the prey.

htx (formerly Huobi Global) is the latest cryptocurrency exchange that Hackers fell victim to after attackers had stolen cryptocurrencies worth $ 8 million.

The incident was the first highlighted by the blockchain security and analysis platform Cybi team Global drew attention to the attack, in which 4,999 Ether (Eth) were deducted from one of the hot wallets of the stock exchange.

🚨Red code yesterday, our ML-based system has discovered a suspicious transaction @Huobiglobal and @HTX_GLOBAL .
Despite our contact attempts, we did not see an answer. An EOA received 5k $ ETH 7.9 million $ from @Huobiglobal ’S hot wallet.

🔍 this morning we… discovered pic.twitter.com/3oqhhavi8p

- 🚨 Cyvers Alerts 🚨 (@Cyversalerts) 25. September 2023

Justin Sun says that user money is Safu

on Monday Tron founder Justin Sun on X released that HTX had actually been the victim of the hacker attack. He referred to a loss of 5,000 ETH worth $ 8 million, but added that the stock exchange fully covered the losses. The user funds were also reported and the platform company normal.

htx @HTX_GLOBAL suffered a loss of 5,000 target = "_ blank" href = "https://twitter.com/hashtag/eth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5etfw"> #eth (8 million US dollars) due to a hacker attack. HTX has completely covered the losses caused by the attack and successfully solved all problems associated with it. All user resources are #safu and the platform works completely.

- se Justin Sun 孙宇晨 (@Justinsuntron) 25. September 2023

reported that the attack occurred on September 24th. The total amount, which was stolen in this attack on another stock exchange, was $ 7.9 million at the time. HTX immediately reacted to the warning of Cyvers, immediately took measures and notified the public. An update contained a message to the hacker that the HTX security team "exposed" the identity of the attacker.

Huobi offered the attacker a "white-hat bonus" of 5 %.

" We are ready to offer 5 % of the stolen amount ($ 400,000) as a white hats reward to encourage the hacker to return the stolen funds. If the hacker returns the money, we will also set it as a white-hat security consultant for HTX. Noopener "Target =" _ blank "href =" https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1706317851694781 "> Sry on X.