Another site in the booming cryptocurrency wallet sector has been hacked after what looks like a DNS hijacking attack.
The victim this time is BlackWallet, whose users reportedly lost 670,000 of a currency called Stellar Lumens (XLMs) worth around $425,000 at the point they were stolen on the afternoon of 13 January.
News that something was amiss first emerged in a Reddit posting claiming to be from the site’s admin:
BlackWallet was compromised today, after someone accessed my hosting provider account. I am sincerely sorry about this and hope that we will get the funds back.
A security researcher who took a look at blackwallet.co before it was taken down tweeted:
The DNS hijack of Blackwallet injected code, if you had over 20 Lumens it pushes them to a different wallet.
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