On Monday (March 25), Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx announced via Telegram that it had been hacked, and that cryptoassets belonging to the exchange as well as to its users had been “transferred and stolen.”

DragonEx announced this terrible news on Monday by posting a notice to the “DragonEx_EN_Announcements” Telegram channel that stated:

  • It had “encountered attacks from hackers” on Sunday (March 24) as a result of which “users’ crypto assets and Platform crypto assets were transferred and stolen.”
  • Some of the stolen funds “were retrieved.”
  • The exchange would do its best to get back the rest of the stolen assets.
  • Authorities in Singapore and several other jurisdictions (including Estonia, Thailand, and Hong Kong) had been notified of this “cyber crime”, and the exchange is assisting the police with their investigation.
  • All services on the platform had been suspended and the “accurate assets loss recovery situation” (meaning that the exact amount of the loss) would be announced in one week.
  • The exchange “will take the responsibility” for the users’ losses “no matter what.”

Apparently, immediately after the exchange discovered on Sunday that it had been hacked, it announced (via the same Telegram channel) that the platform had been taken offline due to system maintenance/upgrade, and it was not until Monday that users found out that the exchange had in fact been hacked.

Earlier today, Joanne Long, a member of DragonEx’s customer support staff, announced on the Telegram channel “DragonEx Official (EN)” that, so far, DragonEx had discovered that the stolen cryptoassets had been transferred to the following wallet addresses:

BTC: 3BorUkWNFECFDoX877BSd2aPdRbPjPj45C
ETH: 0xa7f72bf63edeca25636f0b13ec5135296ca2ebb2
XEM: NARDPLCELIFJOYABZSYW2ZHIC7U2YQKOAAPPMEI3
EOS: worldfoxprin whatagoodeos
XRP: r4y4SZNzZDQdFR51RTFq23cjUvtV3WWzHx
ETC: 0x39c46975becee0e12eb384d066228600e02ab82a
NEO: ASwwE8eG2LecYezPUz3UQnBzgbNqoySiLQ
ABBC: AYQz4Zruq16pC8uBF3ThUraWWUo2tTWCaP
LTC: MS2hm59R95XUxek6vxSTSRjfkNHT3CA8gU
BCHABC: qz7r39tdkcq497p9d9mpftzaqh6v228x0uw6z4lf38
XLM: GCFQMAN7G2RHOGALVZ4MHUSCFWQHQDACNAE3T757Y3A7WQVHPXP4QMWWz
XMR: f5f32732ef34e38bd9570dcca9e4d1e2ebb00938e97af06fbfd8dd1e26de85c2
ADA: Ae2tdPwUPEZ6CZNg5kVEcobu1WQfYzdmRPGkgUFiLZ1Wz4cehQhu82HYBNh
ONT: AQj5xK8vKdu3mpaTj2LwW9nc734160Vagy
TRX: TJeMF6CpEDeG94UAF7d4dzjXkgrwwtDGFB
BTM: bm1qcnz52kmsxj8t8nww8eezp387e3dafl8e0k3fse
XAS: A5DgXp3mt7TBsnqnwoRosczaEavSTWY1WY
ICX: hxaca4668f3b18693701c6e220b4a8986095ab7b19
QTUM: QaXoHzBF9nmh5FHzgnamY33Pb11UexTsrc
USDT:
1P4cdD9kTFGV6wmFxbeoZXosRNUrMrMbmN
1JBoGBv7GnqN6ncEi9aSU71gobcMG9R1Ca
114F7vWREusZTRGcEZGoTAuhWvq8T5tzxR
1HapWDybdWW1H61saGokQ88xVaHvfukgu2
17gqLwmBxdmKEP8vaBEn2ghHvj4vqCiR6q
1B6t6RnVMpTQKhbXsr8hNB3DiyXSSkomkU

She also said:

“we earnestly request help from all our fellow exchanges and other industry strength, please help us to investigate and traced the assets, freeze them and stop the assets flows.”

She later added information about the wallets on Huobi, Binance, and Bittrex that some of the stolen funds had been moved to:

After investigation, the stolen assets from DragonEx were transferred to the following address on Huobi, we earnestly request help from our fellow exchange, please help us to freeze the account, we will provide with sufficient evidence to prove the assets ownership.

ETH:
0x30c0D51BD7F76413f4DE0387843223F47010F74D

After investigation, the stolen assets from DragonEx were transferred to the following address on Binance, we earnestly request help from our fellow exchange, please help us to freeze the account, we will provide with suffifient evidence to prove the assets ownership.

ETH:
0xa305FAb8bDA7e1638235b054889B3217441Dd645
xcf0d6470a4f6023561dc644cf37baceeb630d1da

After investigation, the stolen assets from DragonEx were transferred to the following address on Bittrex, we earnestly request help from our fellow exchange, please help us to freeze the account, we will provide with suffifient evidence to prove the assets ownership.

USDT:
1873ePU2KzVTdvG7fKaQbXhD9HBrgpPBCE
1NuUnGaDjH3gpGTXZjtFt9wo6dw7AK778R

One bit of good news is that, according to Joanne, “the stolen assets transferred to Huobi and gate.io are blocked already!”

We will update this article as the story develops…

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