We\u2019ll return [sic] exact amount of tokens to their legit owners. We apologize for the inconveniences but guarantee that the situation is under control. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe working theory of the internal investigators on the attack is that the recent price growth of KICK tokens caused the project to become a potential target of hackers. In the past fortnight, KICK coins rose from $0.4 to 0.12. However, it is disconcerting to note that the attack took place only because the hackers got access to a private key.<\/p>\n
What do you think about the KickICO hack? Keep the conversation going in the comment section below.<\/p>\n
Image courtesy of Medium (KICKICO OFFICIAL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suspected hackers have successfully managed to attack another cryptocurrency project, this time, KickICO. The attackers were able to steal 70 million KICK which has a market value of about $7.7 million. The hack comes barely two weeks after Bancor, a decentralized exchange platform suffered a $23.5 million cyberattack. Details of the Hack According to a statement released via the project\u2019s Medium page, the attack occurred at 9:04 UTC, yesterday (July 26, 2018). The suspected attackers gained control of the project\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,825,947],"tags":[3147,1990,3460,3459],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}