3Commas owns up to hack after hacker leaks API keys
More turbulence follows as 2022 nears its conclusion. Last week, $22 million worth of crypto was stolen in a hack. These funds were missing due to compromised API keys from 3Commas . However, the firm’s co-founder Yuriy Sorokin dismissed these claims and suggested that there was no security issue in the firm. This dismissal did not last long as Binance’s Changpeng Zhao quickly took to Twitter and shed light on the same. I am reasonably sure there are wide spread API key leaks from 3Commas. If you have ever put an API key in 3Commas (from any exchange), please disable it immediately. Stay #SAFU. — CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) December 28, 2022 An anonymous Twitter user reportedly garnered around 100,000 API keys belonging to 3Commas users and published them online. The hacker even suggested that he will publish the rest of the keys, randomly in the next couple of days. Now, Sorokin has stepped up and revealed that 3Commas had been compromised. The c...