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The Cayman Islands-registered cryptocurrency exchange BitMart has reported the hacking of the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot wallets. Hackers withdrew more than $150 million from the platform. On the night of December 4-5, they noted a number of suspicious transactions from the platform on the Ethereum network. These transfers included tokens like Gala (GALA), Sandbox (SAND), Decentral and (MANGA), Shiba Inu (SHIBA), Coin as well as 500,000 US dollars (USDC). Later, there was information about the hacking of the BSC wallet. According to PeckShield estimates, hackers withdrew about $200 million from the platform (~$100 million in ERC-20 tokens, ~$96 million in BEP-2 and BEP-20 tokens). A similar assessment of the damage was given by the RugDoc service. A few hours later, the exchange's founder and CEO Sheldon Xia confirmed that her wallets had been hacked. According to him, the damage from the actions of the attackers amounted to $ 150 million.

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