Hackers hacked the website of the bankrupt FTX exchange

The administrator of the official Telegram channel of FTX has reported that the cryptocurrency exchange, which announced its own bankruptcy yesterday, was hacked. Users were advised not to visit the FTX website or open the exchange’s official app.

First, a message appeared on the exchange’s channel: «FTX has been hacked. All funds seem to be missing», but after a while the text was edited to clarify that only «some funds were stolen».

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«We are investigating anomalies with wallet movements related to the consolidation of FTX’s balances on exchanges — they are currently unexplained, as are other actions. We’ll share more information as soon as we have it,» a retweet on FTX’s official Twitter page tells us.

According to preliminary data from investigators, more than $ 600 million worth of digital assets were stolen. There are rumors on the web that the dismissed employees of the crypto exchange may have something to do with it.

As for the state of affairs of FTX: yesterday, the exchange published a press release, according to which Сем Бенкман-Фрід" href="https://noworries.media/biography/sem-benkman-frid/" data-bio-id="3697">Sam Benkman-Fried is leaving the position of FTX CEO, and the company is declaring bankruptcy. Bankman-Fried is currently under investigation by the SEC. Just a day after the Binance-prydbaye-kryptobirzhu-ftx/" data-wpel-link="internal">announcement of the acquisition, cryptocurrency exchange Binance refused to acquire FTX. The company stated that they were unable to resolve the problems on the platform.