Mercado Bitcoin hack continued hours after exchange said attack was contained, report finds
Summary
Investigations reveal that a security breach at Mercado Bitcoin persisted well past the time the platform claimed the incident was under control. The perpetrator managed to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars, with blockchain analysis pointing toward connections with a previous exchange compromise.
The same attacker took about $391,000, mostly from wallets Bitquery ties to BitMart, whose founder confirmed a Nov. 2 hack and suspects a link.
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