Do not be surprised if you do not see the site accessible on May 1. You can see their announcement here on this forum on their service thread:
eXch - instant exchange BTC / LN / XMR / LTC / ETH / ERC20Know that Lazarus group has been a threat to everyone even to sites that have signature campaign on this forum. Remember they were responsible for for Sinbad shutdown and now responsible for the shutdown of eXch. eXch was reported to have been used by Lazarus group in laundering $35 million worth of coins from the $1.4 billion Bybit hack. eXch said only little amount worth of coins is linked to Lazarus group.
Be it linked to the hack or not, or maybe the coin that eXch processed for the hackers is not up to the investigated amount, we just know that Lazarus group is responsible for what that happened.
I still find this whole story a bit funny.
An attacker stole over $1.4billion from one of the best centralized exchange that ought to be a protector to one's asset, and came out to declare that they where hacked and say "ooh, don't worry, we have a total backup for all your funds". It's funny to see how humans and institutions try to put blame on other despite their own massive failure.
Till this very minute, I haven't heard anything regarding the remaining stolen funds or have you ?. It's quite unfortunate that eXch found themselves in a situation that they never supported, and was never part of their reason for operation. Just like the thread eXch shared, they've perceived countless threats of shutdown before now, but this very case just happen to be a justifiable reason for the authority to take advantage of.
Quite unfortunate for them, quite unfortunate for privacy.
But I think they earned people's respect for still promoting a better privacy even while going through this phase of making this tough decision. Now that they are shutting down operation, i don't think it will stop the same group from doing the unthinkable.