DeFi In recent months, the cases of cyber attacks on platforms have been increasing rapidly. The latest attack by cyber thieves has been on a crypto liquidity platform.
Providing liquidity services to the largest crypto exchanges wintermutehas been hacked. The platform suffered millions of dollars in losses.
Evgeny Gaevoy, the founder and CEO of Wintermute, shared the incident with his followers on Twitter and posted a flood about the details of the attack.
Short communication on the ongoing Wintermute hack
— wishful cynic (@EvgenyGaevoy) September 20, 2022
Gaevoy announced that the company’s DeFi operations suffered a loss of approximately $160 million. CeFi and OTC transactions were not affected by the cyber attack. Hackers stole a total of 90 types of altcoins from the platform. None of the stolen altconies are worth more than $2.5 million.
“If you have an MCC agreement with Wintermute, your funds are still safe. There may be disruptions in the services provided by the platform for a few days. Then we will be back to normal.”
Gaevoy made a heartwarming statement for the Wintermute platform lenders. The CEO stated that they want to pay the lenders as soon as possible.
Finally, Gaevoy addressed those who hacked the platform. To criminals if hackers bring back what they stole white hat (benevolent) announced that it will apply hacker treatment.
What is Wintermute? What Does It Do?
Wintermute is a startup that provides liquidity services to leading crypto exchanges and DeFi platforms. Platform at the fore Binance, Huobi and FTX He works with more than 50 major crypto companies.
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