Fortunately, no funds were stolen during these attacks.įeb 14, a bug in bZx’s project was exploited leading to a loss of $8.1 million. The attack routed 200 GBps of traffic and then increased it to 400 GB per second during the second wave. The next day, at 4:30 AM EST, the DDoS resumed, taking Bitfinex in the wave as well. On Feb 27, OKEx suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at around 11:30 AM EST.
The founder of Iota, David Sønstebø, later stated that he will personally repay all 46 victims of the hack to the tune of 8.52 million MIOTA - worth roughly $1.97 million at the time of writing.įeb 5 saw another crypto hack after which the Italian crypto exchange Altsbit announced that it will shut down in May 2020, after losing about $70,000.Īccording to the official statement, the hack caused Altsbit to have lost 6.929 Bitcoin (BTC) and 23 Ether ( ETH), among losses in other cryptocurrencies such as Pirate Chain ( ARRR), VerusCoin ( VRSC), and Komodo ( KMD).
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The network went offline the very day and has remained down since. On Feb 12, Iota (MIOTA) suffered an attack targeting its official desktop wallet. Following that, on Jan 24, 15 blocks were removed and 16 blocks were added where 5,267 BTG worth approximately $53,000 was double-spent. On Jan 23, 14 blocks were removed and 13 were added where 1,900 BTG worth about $19,000 was double-spent. $70,000 worth of Bitcoin Gold double-spent in the attack on Jan. Januaryīitcoin hard fork, Bitcoin Gold (BTG) aims to be GPU-mineable by using the Equihash algorithm also known as “Zhash” which suffered a 51 attack. There’s also a timeline of events to make it easier. So if you are an investor or are simply curious to know about the scenario of crypto attacks that troubled the community in 2020, we have compiled them for you.
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