1/3 Over the past couple of weeks a number of @3commas_io users have reported unauthorized trades on their CEX accounts.
3Commas blames it on “phishing” but I now have verified a group of 44 victims who’ve had $14.8m in total stolen. pic.twitter.com/49K28a5Pf8
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) December 20, 2022
2/3 Users have made complaints across different exchanges. It’s clear this is not phishing and api keys were stolen.
3Commas and their founder have chosen to blame its users. Delete the api keys if you haven’t already and stop using 3commas.
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) December 20, 2022
What is an API?
What is algorithmic trading?
An earlier 3Commas scam
13) But in this particular case, we will compensate the affected users.
THIS IS A ONE-TIME THING AND WE WILL NOT DO THIS GOING FORWARD.
THIS IS NOT A PRECEDENT.
We will not making a habit of compensating for uses getting phished by fake versions of other companies!
— SBF (@SBF_FTX) October 23, 2022
There have been some false rumors shared by bad faith actors using falsified evidence to claim 3Commas leaked users’ API keys. These rumors were related to fake screenshots of Cloudflare logs that have been shared on Twitter and Youtube.
The full article: https://t.co/KVOF2BWlYn pic.twitter.com/qJ52CvnVg0— 3Commas (@3commas_io) December 11, 2022
The investigation continues
Hey guys. Unfortunately two days ago my Binance account got exploited through an API which I’ve created 2 years ago and haven’t used since which I assumed I deleted but apparently didn’t. It was used to make trades on low cap coins to push up the price to make profit.
— CoinMamba (@coinmamba) December 8, 2022
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