Stolen Altcoins Trailed in Augur & Ethereum Hack Investigation

An account belonging to Bo Shen, one of many early traders in Ethereum and Augur, was reportedly hacked on Tuesday inflicting funds from each networks to be drained.

The hacked pockets was a prime 20 pockets by measurement in Augur and constituted a major % of the overall token provide. It was sufficiently big to fill virtually all of the orders within the Poloniex purchase facet order guide.

The Poloniex Augur market has bottomed on the value degree of zero.0001 BTC for one REP regardless of the typical value of zero.0035 within the earlier interval.

Poloniex tweeted that they’ve been investigating the Augur matter however have been restricted in what they may discover as a result of the trades in query have been executed by way of an immediate change service.

Following Shen’s cash

Shen has been a powerful supporter of Blockchain know-how and one of many organizers of Shanghai’s International Blockchain Summit. He’s a co-founder of Chinese language VC agency Febushi, the primary China-based enterprise capital agency that solely invests in Blockchain-enabled firms.

The hacking of Shen’s account has been prompt to be a hijack by social engineers.  The type of hackers who closely depend on human interplay and trick folks into breaking regular safety procedures. Kraken stories that there have been extra circumstances of cryptocurrency scene actors being victimized by cell phone hijacking.

As earlier famous by Augur co-founder Jack Peterson, Shen’s REP and ETH have been reportedly dumped on the Poloniex change on the mentioned day inflicting the worth of ETH to tank to as little as $5.98, because the greenback worth of Augur’s digital asset Fame (REP) additionally dropped to $2.09 – although they’ve each recovered in response to CoinMarketCap.