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Bilaxy Rekt: $ 450 million lost after a market hack



Exchange hacks are one of the well-known teething troubles in the crypto space. The latest victim was Bilaxy, where the damage could amount to 450 million US dollars.

Less than three weeks after the spectacular attack on the DeFi platform PolyNetwork, the biggest hack to date in the crypto space with stolen cryptocurrencies worth over 600 million US dollars, the crypto exchange Bilaxy fell victim to a cyber attack. The exchange, which has been registered in Seychelles since 2018, is one of the less well-known representatives in the exchange landscape. The attack is hardly inferior to that on PolyNetwork. According to initial estimates, the hack could amount to 450 million US dollars. Bilaxy has not yet commented on the speculation.


Hack on the bilaxy hot wallet

The exchange reconstructed the incident in a Telegram post. Accordingly, the hack occurred on Saturday, August 28, between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The hacker succeeded in relieving the hot wallet by “around 295 ERC20 tokens”. The tokens were then transferred to an address that had already been given a warning on Etherscan. Otherwise, nothing is known about the course of events.

The exchange then announced that it would perform “emergency maintenance” on the website and “move hundreds of tokens from the hot wallet to cold wallets to secure the assets”. The case will be reported to law enforcement agencies. In addition, Bilaxy promised, “in the coming days, together with security institutions, to carry out a thorough check and investigation of the system security”. The website is not yet available at the time of going to press.


Clarification takes two weeks

According to Bilaxy, the work can take another two weeks:

Bilaxy suffered heavy losses from the hack and the issue is still unresolved which will take a lot of work and time to get the Bilaxy services back on. It can take at least two weeks to thoroughly investigate the hack and rebuild the system architecture to secure the system and assets.

Bilaxy has not taken a position on the amount of the stolen tokens. Hoge Finance said in a tweet that Hoge tokens worth $ 22 million alone were affected by the hack. Initial estimates suggest that the hack could run to $ 450 million. Whether Bilaxy is as lucky as PolyNetwork remains to be seen, but it is unlikely. The attacker on the cross-chain platform quickly turned out to be a “white hat”, ie a well-meaning hacker who finally returned the stolen assets. PolyNetwork reacted confidently and offered the hacker a job as a security advisor.

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