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"Announcement of Withdrawl on Hoo"
Primary Source ↗Incident Details
The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Hoo announced that they would be pausing withdrawals, after so many customers tried to withdraw their crypto that they began to run out of funds in their hot wallet. The company assured customers in a blog post that the pause was temporary and that withdrawals would resume in 24–72 hours once transfers from a “backup multi-signature wallet and other assets” were complete, leaving one to wonder what those other assets might be. The blog post finished by stating, “The platform is trying to reconfigure medium- and long-term assets in an orderly and reasonable manner. Please don’t worry and there will be no loss of your assets.”
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Withdrawal halt / insolvency
- Vendor / Product
- Hoo
Timeline
- 2022-06-19 Breach occurred
- 2022-06-19 Publicly disclosed