KuCoin resumes deposits, withdrawals for Bitcoin, Ether after recovering most of the $281M stolen by hackers

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Additionally, the cryptocurrency exchange said it is “gradually restoring the deposit and withdrawal services of all tokens and the full service of USDT will also resume soon. Please stay tuned for the official announcement.”

In its latest update regarding the hacking incident, KuCoin said, Merculet (MVP) has completed the Token Swap. Deposit and withdrawal are available…. and about 1.23 billion MVP tokens (about $750K) have been secured.”

The cryptocurrency exchange said its partners are continuing in helping retrieve the remaining stolen crypto assets.

“Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino confirmed that Tether has successfully frozen a total of 22 million USDT tokens (about $22 million),” according to KuCoin.

KuCoin identifies suspicious addresses

The cryptocurrency exchange also provided a list of suspicious addresses related to the hacking incident and encouraged users to add them to their blacklist.

Below are the suspicious addresses:

ETH: 0xeb31973e0febf3e3d7058234a5ebbae1ab4b8c2

BTC: 1NRsEQRg5EjmJHbPUX7YADVPcPzCQBkyU7