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Grinex Suspends Trading After $13–15 Million Wallet Breach

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Summary

The article reports that attackers stole an estimated $13–15 million in USDT from Grinex wallets, prompting the exchange to halt trading and withdrawals. Elliptic tracked funds across Ethereum and Tron; foreign-intelligence claims remain unsupported.

Key points

  • The article reports that attackers breached Grinex exchange wallets and stole an estimated $13–15 million in USDT.
  • Grinex halted trading and withdrawals, filed a criminal complaint, and shared available data with law enforcement.
  • Elliptic reported that funds moved across multiple wallets and blockchains, including Ethereum and Tron, and were converted into TRX and ETH.
  • The stolen assets were reportedly consolidated in a wallet holding about 45.9 million TRX, valued at roughly $15 million.
  • Grinex suggested possible foreign-intelligence involvement, but the article says no evidence supports that claim; the source of the breach remains unidentified.

Article Details

Victim Organization
Grinex
Incident Type
Exchange wallet breach and cryptocurrency theft
Affected Data Size
Reportedly $13–15 million in USDT, also described as over 1 billion rubles. According to the article, the stolen funds were later consolidated into a wallet holding approximately 45.9 million TRX, valued at around $15 million.
Operational Impact
Grinex suspended trading and withdrawals, locking users out of their accounts while it assessed the breach. It filed a criminal complaint and shared available data with law enforcement.
Claim Status
confirmed

Products

EthereumHackers rapidly moved and chain-hopped the funds across Ethereum, Tron and other wallets—consolidating about 45.9 million TRX—while investigators probe possible links to sanctioned ecosystems and unprovenTRONHackers rapidly moved and chain-hopped the funds across Ethereum, Tron and other wallets—consolidating about 45.9 million TRX—while investigators probe possible links to sanctioned ecosystems and unproven

Countries

KyrgyzstanGrinex suffered a large-scale wallet breach that forced the Kyrgyzstan-based exchange to suspend trading after attackers stole roughly $13–15 million in USDT.Russiapossibility of foreign intelligence involvement, claiming the attack may have been intended to undermine Russia’s financial independence, no concrete evidence has been presented to support this assertion.

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