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AscendEX Wallet Theft: $77.70M Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

According to the official announcement, some ERC-20, BSC and Polygon tokens of AscendEX were abnormally transferred out of the hot wallet of the exchange, and the cold wallet of AscendEX was not affected by this incident. It is estimated that Pinnacle AscendEX’s losses totaled US$77.7 million (of which US$60 million was on Ethereum, US$9.2 million was on BSC, and US$8.5 million was on Polygon).

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://www.wu-talk.com/html/kuaixun/2021_2359.html (opens in a new tab)

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