Mercado Bitcoin Pauses Payouts After Breach Alerts As Hypernative Spots Forty Million Outflows 🕷️🖤

Mercado Bitcoin just hit pause on all deposits and withdrawals after a wild $40 million drained from their wallets overnight. This whole thing feels super sus rn 🖤 The exchange dropped a quick statement on X about spotting and locking down a security glitch in one of their systems early that morning. Customers came out totally unscathed with zero data leaks which is a relief 😈 “Our teams are mobilized investigating the case, tracking the assets and coordinating measures with the competent authorities,” they said.

Spooky Outflows Hit Ten Chains 👀

Hypernative tracked the moves flying across at least 10 blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron. The first sketchy transfer hit at 2:15 UTC and the biggest waves rolled between 6:19 and 6:53 UTC when MB-linked wallets pumped most funds to fresh addresses 🕷️ Those transactions looked legit like the wallets signed off themselves. No one knows yet how the attacker snagged signing power but the estimate is still early since they gotta verify every source wallet belongs to MB. MB later shared five destination addresses tied to the mess on EVM nets, Bitcoin, Solana, Stellar and Tron. The Bitcoin one scooped up about 106 BTC with 104.4 BTC landing in one go at 6:41 UTC and none moved by 14:50 UTC 💀 Tether froze the USDT heading to two of those spots with the Tron address holding 708,243 USDT and the Ethereum one over 3 million.

Binance Drama Still Fresh 🔪

This MB breach landed just four days after Binance lost $6.3 billion from hot wallets on October 29. Hypernative tagged that as the biggest crypto heist ever and traced it to a compromised DevOps laptop letting unauthorized pulls happen 🌑 Binance paused withdrawals too while beefing up their security. About $3 billion of the stolen funds got frozen on-chain thanks to blockchain partners 🦇

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Just another echo from the void by iconofsin.eth 💖

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