🛡 Grinex Exchange Promises Compensation to Hacked Clients
💰 The largest Russian-speaking cryptocurrency exchange, Grinex, has announced its decision to compensate clients for assets lost due to a hacking attack two weeks ago, estimating the losses at 1 billion rubles. Affected clients will be able to withdraw the A7A5 ruble stablecoins first, the platform promised.
🔒 Currently, the assets withdrawn from the platform remain in the hackers' wallet and are not available for return. Grinex representatives informed Bits media that international AML services have marked the funds in the attackers' wallet as "stolen assets." The Russian police have opened a case following Grinex's report.
The attack was prolonged, complex, and highly technical in nature, said the exchange in a conversation with Bitsmedia.
💵 The unknown attackers managed to withdraw approximately $14 million in USDT stablecoins from Grinex by stealing from 54 addresses (48 on the Tron network and five on Ethereum) and transferring the funds to two Tron wallets. The withdrawn assets were converted to TRX through the DeFi protocol SUN and were eventually consolidated into one address.