A popular cryptocurrency portfolio management specialist has revealed a major cyber-attack which impacted 1590 of its customers’ crypto wallets.
CoinStats describes itself as a leading crypto market tracker, providing customers with visibility into over 300 wallets and exchanges, 1000+ DeFi protocols and over 20,000 cryptocurrencies,
Users can also create CoinStats wallets hosted by the firm, of which there are around 120,000. It is these that were impacted by the attack, rather than any third-party wallets customers may have linked to their account.
CoinStats revealed the incident on X (formerly Twitter) and urged customers: “If you have your private key exported, move your funds ASAP.”
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Just two hours later, it claimed to have mitigated the incident and temporarily shut down the application.
“Thanks to the immediate incident response from the CoinStats team, only 1.3% of all CoinStats Wallets were affected, totalling 1,590 wallets. The list might change as the investigation is ongoing but we don’t expect significant changes,” it explained.
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