- A $2.2 million hack in June was attributed by the bitcoin portfolio management tool to a highly competent hacker who had connections to a nation-state, most likely the Lazarus Group.
- The company claims that multiple essential services were compromised by the attacker and that they have all since been completely rebuilt.
The well-known bitcoin tracking tool CoinStats has provided more information about the June security breach.
In a recent incident report, CoinStats stated that a “sophisticated (and we believe nation-state affiliated) attacker managed to access private keys of exactly 1590 CoinStats Wallets,” leading to the theft of almost $2.2 million worth of cryptocurrency.
The organization thinks the attack was carried out by the notorious Lazarus gang or a different hacking gang with similar help from a nation-state.
According to the report, the attacker utilized a mix of illegal incursions across numerous services, including those outside of CoinStats, to compromise multiple services linked to CoinStats’ storage of user-created wallet private keys.
According to the report, the hack has been reported to law authorities, and professionals like ZachXBT and Taylor Monahan, lead security researcher at MetaMask, are actively tracking down the funds.
In June, CoinStats alerted users to the need to remove cash from wallets they had created on the site because an attacker had taken control of it and was sending phony alerts to mobile users. The business claims that 1,590 wallets, or 1.3% of all CoinStats wallets, were impacted by the hack.
Following the breach, the business hired new infrastructure auditors and entirely rebuilt its platform environment, making sure that no components of the previous setup were utilized to ensure the integrity of the new setup.
The platform is now fully operational again, and while though the firm hasn’t discovered any proof of user data being taken, as a precautionary measure, the report alerts CoinStats users to the potential for phishing attempts aimed at email addresses associated with CoinStats.
The company has additionally established a form that must be completed by August 15 in order for attack victims to be qualified for any further assistance from the CoinStats team. However, the company refuses to reveal any precise specifics regarding reimbursement of funds that were taken.
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