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Arijit Sarkar54 minutes agoMixin Network hack drains $200M from mainnet assetsMixin Network suspended all deposits and withdrawals and will restart the services “once the vulnerabilities are confirmed and fixed.”688 Total views3 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksDecentralized peer-to-peer network Mixin Network has lost approximately $200 million in a hack involving the compromise of the database of a third-party cloud service provider.


On Sept. 25, Mixin Network confirmed that a hack on Sept. 23 drained approximately $200 million worth of crypto assets from its mainnet. An immediate suspension of all deposit and withdrawal services on Mixin Network followed the revelation.[Announcement] In the early morning of September 23, 2023 Hong Kong time, the database of Mixin Network"s cloud service provider was attacked by hackers, resulting in the loss of some assets on the mainnet. We have contacted Google and blockchain security company @SlowMist_Team…— Mixin Kernel (@MixinKernel) September 25, 2023


Mixin Network appointed blockchain investigator SlowMist, as well as Google, to help investigate the hack as the Mixin team attempts a recovery. At the time of the hack, Mixin held $94.48 million in Ether (ETH), $23.55 million in Dai (DAI) and $23.3 million in Bitcoin (BTC), according to a separate investigation conducted by PeckShield. The total portfolio amounted to $141.32 million.Mixin Network portfolio of $141.32 million. Source: PeckShield


Deposits and withdrawals on Mixin Network will recommence “once the vulnerabilities are confirmed and fixed.” The plans to recover the lost assets for users were not announced immediately.


While it was initially promised that Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong would explain this incident in a public Mandarin livestream at 1:00 pm Hong Kong Time on Sept 25, links to the livestream were not provided on official social media channels such as X (formerly Twitter) or its official website mixin.network.


Mixin Network did not respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment by publication.


Related:Remitano exchange hacked for $2.7M; $1.4M frozen by Tether


Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently suffered a hack that compromised his social media profile on X.Vitalik Buterin confirms how hackers accessed his X account. Source: Warpcast


Buterin confirmed that he fell victim to a SIM swap attack after “someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number.” SIM swap or sim jacking attacks aim to control the victim’s mobile number and use two-factor authentication to access social media, bank and crypto accounts.


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