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A single malicious transaction led to $230M drained from WazirX

Indian crypto exchange WazirX lost over $230 million worth of assets after addresses governing its multisig wallet were compromised. Cyvers was the first to flag the outflows, identifying the compromise of WazirX’s Safe wallet by a Tornado Cash-funded attacker on the Ethereum network. ALERTHey @WazirXIndia, Our system has detected multiple suspicious transactions involving your Safe Multisig wallet on the #ETH network. A total of $234.9M of your funds have been moved to a new address. Each transaction's caller is funded by @TornadoCash. The suspicious… pic.twitter.com/4sajAwd4Hb — Cyvers Alerts (@CyversAlerts) July 18, 2024 Read more: Hackers switching to centralized exchanges to fund crypto attacks The alert was followed up by crypto sleuth ZachXBT , who shared the Hack er’s primary address, later receiving a bounty for identifying a further funding source that came from an exchange with know-your-customer (KYC) procedures. WazirX’s acknowledgment of the ‘secu...

Whale mistakenly pays record $500k fee to move $1.9k BTC

An unlucky Bitcoin (BTC) user recently paid over $500,000 in transaction fees to move just 0.074 BTC to Binance — a historical network fee on the BTC blockchain. Prominent whale tracking resource Whale Alert first called attention to the development in a recent disclosure on X (formerly Twitter), eliciting varied reactions from the broader crypto community. A fee of 19 #BTC (509,563 USD) has just been paid for a single transaction!https://t.co/sI0FSMnsiW — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 10, 2023 The transaction occurred on Sept. 10 at 5:04 AM (UTC). Data from Blockchair indicates that the user transferred a meager 0.074 BTC tokens, currently valued at $1,911, with some of the assets sent to Binance. However, fees for the transaction stood at a whopping 19.82 BTC, worth around $511,512 against prevailing rates. Interestingly, Bitcoin’s average transaction fee currently sits at 0.000084 BTC, valued at $2, according to recent data from IntoTheBlock. You migh...