Analysts calculated the damage from hacking Atomic Wallet
The reported losses of users of the non-custodial wallet Atomic Wallet exceeded $100 million. reported Elliptic analysts.
The company monitors over 5,500 cryptocurrency wallets that are believed to have been compromised in the attack.
The measures taken by Elliptic made it possible to freeze assets worth more than $1 million. Analysts continue to search for stolen funds.
The experts also added information about cryptocurrency wallets used by the US-sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex to their blockchain analytics tool. Through it, hackers laundered part of the Atomic Wallet funds.
“This allows our customers to avoid transactions with this object,” Elliptic added.
Since June 2, several user accounts of the non-custodial Atomic Wallet have been compromised, resulting in up to $35 million in digital asset losses, according to preliminary estimates.
Subsequently, the stolen funds passed through the Sinbad.io mixer and the Russian bitcoin exchange Garantex, which is under US sanctions.
On June 13, the administration of the non-custodial wallet Atomic Wallet was sent summons for questioning from law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan. In addition, they requested server logs – an activity log that records all user actions on the site.
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