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Poloniex Hack: Justin Sun’s Poloniex suffered a hack on November 10, with whole funds stolen reaching over $126 million. Tron founder Justin Sun confirmed that the alternate was hacked after Crypto Twitter revealed a possible hacking incident at Poloniex. Justin Sun plans to reimburse affected customers and provide a “white hat bounty” to the hacker.

Poloniex Suffers 126 Million Hack

CoinGape Media reported that Tron chain deal with transferred massive belongings resembling USDT, BTC, USDD, USDC, ETH, FLOKI,  TUSD, and plenty of different belongings, value over $100 million in 357 transactions.

The crypto neighborhood blamed Poloniex and Justin Sun for making an attempt to cover the hacking incident. After a number of customers reported disabled wallets, Poloniex Customer Support stated:

“Our wallet has been disabled for maintenance. We will update this thread once the wallet has been re-enabled.”

Later, Justin Sun confirmed the Poloniex hack to the crypto neighborhood. Also, he introduced a 5% white hat bounty to the hacker for returning hacked funds in 7 days. The alternate is contemplating to have interaction legislation enforcement if the hacker fails to coordinate.

Poloniex hacked.

Don’t know a lot particulars but. We hope will probably be resolved quickly, and all the time prepared to assist if any of the funds circulation our approach.

Please keep #SAFU. 🙏 https://t.co/jIEAvXUpGn

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) November 10, 2023

Scopescan monitoring confirmed that the hacker used USDC to buy TRX on Ethereum and USDT on the TRON chain. So far, he has bought a complete of 206 million TRX (roughly $22.8 million). This ought to be the rationale for TRX’s surge.

TRX price jumped 8% in an hour, with the value at the moment buying and selling at $0.10. The 24-hour high and low are $0.097 and $0.11, respectively.

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