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Deribit: Biggest Crypto Options Exchange Loses $28 Million

Deribit: Biggest Crypto Options Exchange Loses $28 Million

Popular crypto options and futures exchange Deribit has suffered a hack which led to the theft of around $28 million from a hot wallet.

The exchange says that customer funds are safe, but any losses are being covered by the company’s reserves.

The company announced on Twitter that it is conducting ongoing security checks and customer assets have not been affected, but withdrawals have been temporarily suspended.

The company’s procedure is to keep 99% of our users’ funds in cold storage to limit the impact of this type of event. The hackers’ attack has been isolated and quarantined in our BTC, ETH and USDC hot wallets” Deribit wrote on Twitter.


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Deribit becomes the latest in a long list of crypto companies that have been the target of malicious hacks in recent weeks. October was historically the worst month in this regard with over $718 million stolen in the first two weeks alone.

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