In mid-January, the cryptocurrency exchange,
Cryptopia, was hacked and the site lost over $1 million worth of Ethereum. Cryptopia's Ethereum hack continues as the hacker makes another transfer from users who are still transferring Ethereum to Cryptopia earlier in the week.
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On January 29th, it seems that the hacker still has control over Cryptopia's Ethereum wallets. It is not confirmed if all tokens are affected, or if other wallets are affected like Bitcoin or Dogecoin wallets. Cryptopia had notified the authorities and they are currently investigating the breach. So far the recent hack had affected thousands of wallets and $180k (1,676 ETH) was withdrawn from Cryptopia wallets. The funds were then deposited to a wallet that is being tagged as directly associated with the Cryptopia hack.
Cryptopia has yet to make a public announcement and has not made a public Tweet since January 27th, 2019. The local authorities in New Zealand have also
yet to make a public announcement, but the hack occurred under the watch of cryptocurrency security analysts. It is likely that the transfers are being monitored and the IP address of the hacker is being followed by the police.
Cryptopia Ethereum Hacker Address Information
Most funds from the Cryptopia Ethereum hack currently reside in a single wallet. The
address in question currently has $3.3 million est. (30,790 ETH approx.) currently in the wallet.
Another address was used and associated with the Cryptopia breach, you can also see the associated wallets regarding this case
here.
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If you have any information regarding the Cryptopia hack of 2019 then please contact
New Zealand authorities (New Zealand Police).
IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM EDITOR:
If you have any automatic transfers depositing to Cryptopia then please cut them all off. The recent transactions have been noted to be only possible due to people forgetting to keep their mining pools updated with proper addresses! Always remember to not keep a lot of funds on exchanges, or on wallets that you do not have direct access to. Please run wallet or full node to protect yourself and the network! Please stay vigilant!
