Wemix CEO: The hacker is unlikely to be North Korea's Lazarus, and plans to restore all services this week

Odaily reported that Wemix Foundation, a blockchain subsidiary of Wemade, has disclosed that it lost about 8.65 million WEMIX tokens (worth about $6.22 million) due to a hacking attack. Wemix CEO Kim Seok-hwan stated that the hacker is likely not the North Korean organization Lazarus Group, but a professional, who infiltrated the system by stealing the service monitoring authentication key of the platform Nile. It is reported that the hacker had been preparing for this attack for two months, and then carried out 15 withdrawal attempts through creating abnormal transactions, of which 13 were successful. Kim Seok-hwan also revealed that Wemix plans to reopen all its services on Friday and will upgrade its security measures on the new blockchain infrastructure.