Some users’ private keys were leaked due to a Trojan virus sent to exchange wallets by a former Huobi employee.
Chinese news reporter Colin Wu’s agency Wu Blockchain reported on September 16. to share According to a former employee of HTX (formerly Huobi), one of Asia’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, formerly Huobi Wallet of iToken to its infrastructure trojan horse virus spread.
Virus, some users wallet recovery “reminders” or private keys leaked And their existence is in danger caused. After former Huobi employee infected with trojan virus by law enforcement He was interrogated.
Following the incident, the İToken system gave users access to some wallet addresses. security leak He warned that it might happen. Then the assets in the risky wallets are transferred to the security institution to refundyourcoins was sent and taken under protection. According to current information, refundyourcoins is a company to facilitate the recovery of assets. refund process will start.
According to Wu, among the assets sent to refundyourcoins and included in the refund process Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP) took place.