A crypto exchange based in Hong Kong, CoinEx, is dealing with a security breach. They've lost a significant amount of ETH and TRON from their hot wallets (4,946 ETH and 354,762 TRX so far). The company is looking into it and has promised to reimburse affected users.
Source:
https://thedefiant.io/coinex-exchange-hacked-for-usd28mCyvers Alerts, a crypto alert platform, reported that one address received over $5 million in various assets from CoinEx -
https://etherscan.io/address/0xcc1ae485b617c59a7c577c02cd07078a2bcce454Well-known X/Twitter crypto investigator, ZachXBT, shared more addresses related to the breach in his Telegram. The story is still developing. Anyone affected? Please share your story.
We can not trust the centralized exchanges these days. They have own exit plan. Some of them are hacked by others. Also some of the exchanges are hacked by themself. So it is better to avoid centralized exchanges. In my case, I never stored any crypto in CEX. I have multiple hardware wallets to store the crypto.
Eg :
1. Safepal hardware wallet