The popular cryptocurrency options exchange, Deribit, has seen its hot wallet exploited for a considerable $28 million earlier today.
According to a statement from a company’s spokesperson shared with CryptoPotato, the funds are safe, and the loss has already been compensated by their reserves.
- Deribit took it to Twitter earlier today to reveal that its hot wallet was hacked, resulting in $28 million being stolen. The team has managed to isolate the attack to their BTC, ETH, and USDC hot wallets.
- According to the Twitter thread, none of the company’s cold storage addresses have been affected.
- At the time of this writing, the withdrawals and deposits have been halted, and those deposits that were already sent will be processed after the “required number of confirmations.”
- CryptoPotato reached out to Deribit, and a spokesperson confirmed:
Deribit hot wallet compromised, but client funds are safe, and loss is covered by company reserves.