A 3rd intriguing transaction has taken place with a 2,310 Ether (ETH) transaction price, valued at over $540,000 at time of press. Occurring lower than 24 hours after the primary two transactions with over $5.2 million (10,668.73 Ether every) in charges had been processed on the Ethereum blockchain, this new transaction has raised the query of whether or not there may be multiple particular person concerned.
Transaction particulars of the third uncommon transaction. Supply: Etherscan
A shock twist
In contrast to the earlier two transactions, this one had a considerable transaction quantity of three,221 Ether with a worth greater than the price. Including to the controversy, this was not despatched from the identical tackle, however introduced a wholly new tackle into the equation, one which had (MiningPoolHub: Previous Deal with 7) subsequent to its title.
This new tackle had many smaller transactions going out to the identical recipient across the similar time, nevertheless all different transactions had been solely a few Ether with charges various from 0.0005 to 0.29 Ether. Usually 0.29 could be an costly transaction, nevertheless, they’re barely noticeable in comparison with the one with charges exceeding half one million.
Now it’s a kidnap try
Founding associate at Primitive Ventures Dovey Wan has taken half within the dialog suggesting that is much less prone to be a mistake and appears like a message:
“WOW one other irregular ETH transaction with over 2K ETH price simply emerged, following the earlier two incidences every with over 10Ok ETH price. This to me is NOT a bug, extra like a MESSAGE. A wild guess is definite alternate/pockets/ETH providers is being ‘kidnapped’ by hacker.”
Heaps in however none out
The receiving tackle has over 2,000 transactions courting again to three years in the past, with nearly all of them transferring minimal quantities of Ether into the pockets. The one transfers out occurred greater than two years in the past with the final one collaborating within the EOS token sale.
The tackle additionally has obtained not less than 4 different transactions during the last 12 months with transaction charges within the 1000’s of {dollars}.
A excessive price is because of the truth that hacker’s gasoline worth is a operate of the quantity of stolen funds. pic.twitter.com/GMh9Ob6YFa
— Frank Topbottom (@FrankResearcher) June 12, 2020
