Data leak
[loss] $26M+
Tweet by Kronos
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$26.0M
(26,000,000 USD)
Incident Details
The cryptocurrency trading firm Kronos Research announced on Twitter that they had stopped trading while they investigated “unauthorized access of some of our API keys”. They claimed that “potential losses are not a significant portion of our equity”. They later confirmed the loss at around $26 million.
Total loss estimated at $26,000,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- On-chain theft (attributed by zachxbt)
- Vendor / Product
- Kronos
Timeline
- 2023-11-18 Breach occurred
- 2023-11-18 Publicly disclosed