{"id":269794,"date":"2022-10-24T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=269794"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:17:48","slug":"ftx-compensating-users-who-lost-6m-to-phishing-attacks-just-this-once-says-sbf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/ftx-compensating-users-who-lost-6m-to-phishing-attacks-just-this-once-says-sbf\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX compensating users who lost $6M to phishing attacks “just this once,” says SBF"},"content":{"rendered":"

3Commas, a platform that enables users to build automated trading bots, announced<\/a> Oct. 21 that three of its customers' keys were used to execute unauthorized trades on its partner exchange accounts.<\/p>\n

An investigation revealed that the affected users were phished using fake 3Commas websites, indicating that the keys were stolen outside 3Commas.<\/p>\n

Crypto exchange FTX's CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted<\/a> Oct. 24 that several other users had also fallen prey to other phishing attacks that emulated sites like 3Commas.\u00a0 While FTX cannot stop miscreants from creating fake sites of other crypto services, as a “ONE TIME THING,” the exchange will compensate users who collectively lost $6 million, he said.<\/p>\n

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13) But in this particular case, we will compensate the affected users.<\/p>\n

THIS IS A ONE-TIME THING AND WE WILL NOT DO THIS GOING FORWARD.<\/p>\n

THIS IS NOT A PRECEDENT.<\/p>\n

We will not making a habit of compensating for uses getting phished by fake versions of other companies!<\/p>\n

— SBF (@SBF_FTX) October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n