Mark Cuban loses $870K in hot wallet hack
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Nearly $900,000 worth of crypto was reportedly drained from one of the hot wallets belonging to billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Independent blockchain sleuth Wazz was the first to spot the hack on Sept. 15 at around 8 pm UTC, after they highlighted suspicious behavior with one of Cuban’s wallets that the 65-year-old hadn’t interacted with for roughly five months.
Lmao, did Mark Cuban's wallet just get drained?— Wazz (@WazzCrypto) September 15, 2023
Wallet inactive for 160 days and all assets just moved pic.twitter.com/vWnMZFyHB5
According to the transaction history on Etherscan, several batches of assets such as USD Coin (USDC), Tether (USDT) and Lido Staked Ether (stETH) were suddenly withdrawn from the wallet within a 10-minute window.
Adding complexity to the matter, another $2 million worth of USDC was then also withdrawn and sent to a different wallet, leading Wazz to suspect that Cuban may have just been moving assets around.
However, a …
Independent blockchain sleuth Wazz was the first to spot the hack on Sept. 15 at around 8 pm UTC, after they highlighted suspicious behavior with one of Cuban’s wallets that the 65-year-old hadn’t interacted with for roughly five months.
Lmao, did Mark Cuban's wallet just get drained?— Wazz (@WazzCrypto) September 15, 2023
Wallet inactive for 160 days and all assets just moved pic.twitter.com/vWnMZFyHB5
According to the transaction history on Etherscan, several batches of assets such as USD Coin (USDC), Tether (USDT) and Lido Staked Ether (stETH) were suddenly withdrawn from the wallet within a 10-minute window.
Adding complexity to the matter, another $2 million worth of USDC was then also withdrawn and sent to a different wallet, leading Wazz to suspect that Cuban may have just been moving assets around.
However, a …