Iran’s largest crypt exchange, Nobitex, said on Wednesday that he was hacked and that the funds were drained from his hot portfolio.
In a statement on its website translated by Techcrunch, Nobitex said that it detected unauthorized access to its infrastructure and the hot portfolio, in which the company stores a part of its customers’ cryptocurrency. The company said he was investigating the incident and that his website and application would not be available for the foreseeable future.
Public records Show hackers stole at least $ 90 million from company assets for various transactions. The elliptical blockchain analysis firm said the The hackers “burned” the stolen funds Sending the crypt to inaccessible portfolios, effectively removing the money from the circulation.
Nobitex has more than 10 million customers, according to A copy filed from the Nobitex website last week.
Pro-Israel Sparrow (also known in Farsi as “Gonjeshke Darande”) Take credit for Ciberatac. In An AX postThe group said he directed Nobitex to allegedly finance terrorism for the Iranian regime and evading international sanctions.
One day before, the piracy group also claimed responsibility for a pirate to Iran Seaph bank Giving rise to widespread interruptions in ATMs across the country.
The news of the cyberataques comes when Israel and Iran attaches the cities. It is unclear who is behind the predatory pair, which first appeared in 2021, but the piracy group Aimed at Iranian organizations with destructive cyberataques in the pastAnd it seems widely aligned with Israeli interests.
Iran News Outlet, Irib, said on Tuesday that in the middle of the ongoing military conflict, Israel had “launched a massive cyber war against digital infrastructure (Iran) to alter the service provision process.”
