Breaking - Atomic Wallet Hacked, Crypto Analyst ZachXBT Investigates
Reports are emerging that Atomic Wallet has been hacked and user funds compromised, with some victims having their entire balance drained.
Today, June 3rd, @AtomicWallet tweeted:
On-chain sleuth ZachXBT, who has in the past managed to trace where stolen funds were sent to and helped authorities make arrests, is seen below requesting the transaction hash from an affected Atomic Wallet user.
According to the atomicwallet.io website, Atomic Wallet was a trusted decentralized wallet with over five million users.
Some Twitter users have reported losing over six figures in the attack.
Wu Blockchain tweeted that it was possibly a supply chain attack, in which 'hackers tamper with the software source code on the server for ordinary users to download'.
All of Atomic Wallet's five latest Twitter replies state: 'We are doing all we can to investigate and analyse the situation. As soon as we have more information we will share it accordingly. For any questions and concerns, contact [email protected].'
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