Hackers loot nearly Rs 2,000crore from crypto bourse WazirX
Business new tamfitronics MUMBAI: WazirX, one of the leading crypto currency exchanges in India with about 1.6 crore users, faced a hacker attack on Thursday that, according to one estimate, resulted in unauthorised withdrawal of various tokens aggregating about $235 million (around Rs 1,966 crore) from its customers’ wallets. As a result, WazirX has stopped all withdrawals in rupee and crypto currencies temporarily, it said through a post on X (formerly Twitter).Elliptic, a global crypto currency analytics and compliance firm, said that North Korean hackers were behind the attack on WazirX.On Thursday afternoon, WazirX said that it was aware that one of its wallets had experienced a security breach. “Our team is actively investigating the incident. To ensure the safety of your assets, rupee and crypto withdrawals will be temporarily paused,” the platform...