{"id":562105,"date":"2020-06-16T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=562105"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:43:00","slug":"ethereum-address-that-paid-5m-in-eth-fees-belongs-to-a-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/ethereum-address-that-paid-5m-in-eth-fees-belongs-to-a-ponzi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Address that Paid $5M in ETH Fees Belongs to a Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"
In brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n The mystery owner of the Ethereum address that paid over $5 Million in ETH mining fees over two transactions has finally been identified. According to the team at PeckShied Inc, the address belongs to a small Peer-to-peer exchange in Korea called Good Cycle. The Peckshield Inc<\/a>. team has gone further to postulate that the crypto exchange is most likely a Ponzi Scheme with minimal online security safeguards such as the use of HTTPS on their web domain.<\/p>\n We have identified the victim, a small P2P exchange in Korea called Good Cycle, which appears to be a Ponzi Scheme project. Our investigation found that their security is really lacking, e.g., using HTTP instead of HTTPS, and could be easily hacked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Below is the tweet from Peckshield that follows up on the earlier mentioned theory<\/a> by Vitalik Buterin suggesting the high ETH fees were a form of ransom.<\/p>\n Update: We have identified the victim, a small P2P exchange in Korea called Good Cycle, which appears to be a Ponzi Scheme project. Our investigation found that their security is really lacking, e.g., using HTTP instead of HTTPS, and could be easily hacked.<\/p>\n — PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) June 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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