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Two malicious gamers have stolen over 1,000,000 Arbitrum (ARB) tokens, blockchain safety agency Peckshield reported on March 31.
Based on the report, a pockets “0xbd4E” linked to an exploiter transformed 933,375 ARB to 713 Ethereum (ETH) — value $1.27 million — and bridged these tokens to Ethers mainnet.
One other pockets — “0x7AFd,” which stole 105,000 ARB tokens — transferred the ill-gotten wealth to 2 new addresses — “0xC4cf” and “0xB209.”
It was unclear if the 2 wallets had been linked to the identical exploiter as of press time.
In the meantime, on-chain investigator Lookonchain incorrectly tagged pockets “0xbd4E” as a “tremendous airdrop hunter.” A sufferer, Henry stated they misplaced 7250 ARB tokens to the hacker.
One other blockchain safety agency Certik reported a phishing web site marketed by a faux Arbitrum Twitter account. On March 25, Certik stated a faux phishing hyperlink was posted on Arbitrum’s official Discord Server.
Is Upbit accumulating ARB?
In the meantime, web3 information protocol 0xScope reported that an externally owned account (EOA) suspected to be UPbit collected a “huge” quantity of ARB up to now day.
Based on on-chain information, the pockets now holds 59 million tokens value $84.4 million.
If 0xScope’s assumption is true, the Korean alternate holds the second most ARB tokens after Binance.
Bankrupt Alameda claims over 33,000 ARB tokens
Based on Arkham Intelligence, crypto wallets linked to bankrupt crypto agency Alameda Analysis claimed 33,125 ARB tokens — value $45,000 — from the March 23 airdrop.
Arkham tweeted that one of many bankrupt’s agency accounts — “0xc5e” — obtained the utmost allocation of 10250 ARB. The opposite 4 accounts obtained between 2,125 – 8,750 tokens.
The agency’s directors have been consolidating the bankrupt agency’s property from completely different on-chain sources in a single pockets after it collapsed in November 2022.
Arbitrum worth down 3%
ARB is down 2.72% within the final 24 hours to commerce at $1.35141 as of press time, based on CryptoSlate information.
The layer2 community token skilled a heavy sell-off after its launch on March 23, however its worth has begun to stabilize over the previous few days.
The token is ranked among the many high 40 digital property by market cap with a valuation of $1.7 billion, based on CryptoSlate information.
In the meantime, the community stays the preferred layer2 answer with over $6 billion value of property locked on it, based on L2beat.
