Atomic Wallet cleaned up tweets about hacking wallets
Date: 2023-06-27 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: BUSINESS
Cryptocurrency wallet Atomic Wallet deleted tweets in which it stated that less than 1% of all wallet users were affected by the hack
Crypto wallet Atomic Wallet cleaned up tweets where it stated that less than 1% of the monthly active users of the wallet were affected by the hack. The first to draw attention to this was a Twitter user under the nickname @lglondoncrypto1. The editors confirm the removal of tweets by Atomic Wallet.
In initial messages, the crypto wallet team stated that less than 1% of the wallet's monthly active users were victims of the hack. However, in a press release dated June 20, Atomic Wallet announced a different figure - less than 0.1% of users. At the same time, representatives of the wallet did not publicly comment on the deletion of messages on Twitter.
It also follows from the press release that the attackers "actively launder" the stolen cryptocurrency through various services and smart contracts. It is unclear what kind of smart contracts we are talking about. Atomic Wallet decided not to mention the platforms through which cybercriminals launder cryptocurrency.
Third-party analysts are much more transparent with the public. For example, according to the British blockchain firm Elliptic, North Korean hackers (it is assumed that hackers from North Korea were behind the hack based on a similar pattern of actions) successfully laundered part of the cryptocurrency through the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex and the sanctioned mixer Sinbad (formerly Blender.io).
Moreover, Elliptic found out that the scale of losses from hacking is not $35 million, as originally assumed, but $100 million.
Analysts at another firm, MistTrack, also learned that the hackers sent some of the funds obtained from the hack to the Binance, Bitget, and JustSwap exchanges. It is not known whether the exchanges prevented North Korean criminals.
