Cryptocurrency News / 22 August 2017 / Hacker Nets over $500,000 after Hacking Enigma before ICO Date
A hacker managed to compromise Enigma before its ICO, netting over 1,500 Ether (over $500,000) from the community. The hacker managed to compromise Enigma’s social accounts and started to send emails and post Slack messages to urge the community to send funds to his Ethereum address claiming Enigma opened its pre-ICO. Since then, the Enigma team has warned the community although 200 transactions were already made. The fake email reads:
“We are pleased with the enormous support we have gotten in the last couple of weeks. The Enigma team has decided to open the Pre-Sale to the public. The hard cap for this pre sale will be 20 Million. Please note that tokens will be calculated and distributed based on how much the Pre-Sale raises.”