Official Announcement: Trade.Io Contains Breach Of Mutual Coldness Storage Hardware Wallet, Protecting Tio Holders...

At 08:40 EST twenty Oct 2018, the trade.io safety squad was alerted to a large transaction originating from our wallet belongings 50M Trade Tokens (TIO) owned past times trade.io reserved for the liquidity pool. Immediately next the alert, our merchandise monitoring observed abnormal trading of TIO on external exchanges. These exchanges were forthwith alerted to disable deposits/withdrawals as well as trading of TIO, as well as our safety squad began its investigation. The responsiveness past times the diverse teams inside trade.io prevented the province of affairs from deteriorating as well as helped quarantine the issue.

At no dot was the trade.io telephone substitution or liquidity puddle accessed or affected, as well as both rest operational. The breach was express to 1 detail hardware wallet that was purchased straight from the manufacturer. Consequently, no client accounts were straight affected, or client funds lost. Investigations are ongoing, simply stimulate got then far concluded that at that spot was no technical hack on the mutual frigidness storage unit, as well as trade.io systems rest secure as well as unbreached. There is too cipher to yell for theft past times internal actors.

Along alongside the administration team, both KuCoin as well as Bancor responded promptly as well as are assisting trade.io inward our investigation as well as stimulate got taken steps to quarantine the associated transactions.

We are actively taking steps to farther lock downward the situation, as well as preclude whatever othe potential impact.

As a effect of the incident, trade.io Management has decided to fork TIO. The refer of the forked token volition hold upwardly Trade Token X alongside the pump TIOx, like to TIO it volition hold upwardly an ERC-20 token. Details of the fork are expected to hold upwardly released soon.

Lastly, spell this safety breach has been an inconvenience, nosotros are happy to written report again

that no client assets were lost as well as we’re pleased alongside how efficient as well as responsive our entire squad acted next the breach. We’ve been overwhelmed alongside the positive answer from our clients which nosotros affectionately telephone phone TIOnauts as well as can’t give thank you lot them plenty for their back upwardly as well as good wishes every bit nosotros give-up the ghost along this exceptional movement.

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