After a security breach that occurred in February and does not seem to have been rectified, the wallet provider MyAlgo, which is situated in Algorand, has once again encouraged customers to withdraw their assets.
In the meanwhile, the decentralized exchange Algodex has disclosed that a malicious actor gained access to a business wallet on March 5. The exchange said in a tweet that the incident “appears to be comparable to what is now occurring in the Algorand ecosystem.”
An unsavory character gained access to a business wallet in the wee hours of the previous morning, according to an explanation provided by Algodex in a post dated March 6th.
Before the assault, Algodex took safeguards, including transferring the majority of its USD Coin and native Algodex (ALGX) tokens to safe places where they could not be accessed by other parties.
Yet, the compromised wallet was connected to Algodex’s liquidity incentives scheme and was accountable for adding further liquidity to the ALGX token. This was how the wallet was compromised.
According to Algodex, “as a consequence of this, the malicious actor was able to withdraw the Algo and the ALGX from the Tinyman pool that we had constructed in order to offer further liquidity to the ALGX token.”
The exchange acknowledged that a total of $25,000 worth of ALGX tokens that had been set aside to give liquidity incentives had been stolen, but it said that it will make up for this loss in full.
It was also said that the overall loss from the theft was less than $55,000, but that users of Algodex and the liquidity of ALGX were not impacted by the incident.
In the meanwhile, MyAlgo, the supplier of wallets for the Algorand network, has issued additional warnings to customers, advising them to either withdraw their assets or rekey their cash to other accounts as soon as possible.
After a security breach that occurred at MyAlgo between February 19 and 21, which led to losses of about $9.2 million, many warnings have been issued.
The MyAlgo team issued a warning through Twitter on February 27 about a targeted assault that had been carried out “against a variety of high-profile MyAlgo accounts” during the course of the previous week.
