Security Alert!! Parity Multisig Ethereum Wallets hacked! Vulnerability found & funds stolen

in #ethereum7 years ago

In the official Parity blog a critical security alert has been posted. Everyone with funds on a multi-sig wallet created with Parity 1.5 or higher must move their funds ASAP!!

Source: https://blog.parity.io/security-alert-high-2/

At least three ICO wallets totalling ~ 32 million dollars have been stolen. These are: AEternity, Edgeless Casino and Swarm City

A Statement has been already published by Swarm City.

This is the hacker's wallet address with the stolen funds: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb3764761e297d6f121e79c32a65829cd1ddb4d32

Most cryptocurrency startups holding funds in ETH are right now moving their funds to a new, safe addres.

The White Hat Group has identified most vulnerable wallets and transferred nearly 80 million dollars to a new, safe address. They will then be transferred to a new address with the same settings as the vulnerable ones.

Safeguarded funds: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1dba1131000664b884a1ba238464159892252d3a

So to sum up, if you hold Ethers in a multisig wallet created with Parity 1.5 or higher move your funds ASAP!

Thanks for reading.