The Crazy Story behind the CoinMetro Hack

2020-10-25 Parsiq

https://medium.com/parsiq/transcript-the-crazy-story-behind-the-coinmetro-hack-72091b6f07b8

The transcript covers CoinMetro's October 2020 breach and the impact on PARSIQ after a significant amount of PRQ tokens was stolen. PARSIQ says CoinMetro, not PARSIQ's own systems, was breached, but the team still forked and reissued the token to protect more than 7,000 holders. The unresolved harm centered on roughly 100 to 150 people who bought PRQ during the post-hack dip on Uniswap and were left outside the initial remediation plan. The excerpt also frames PARSIQ's blockchain monitoring technology as part of the response timeline, but it does not attribute the hack to a specific threat actor.

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Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN blog.parsiq.net 2020-10-25 2020-10-25

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