Remember seeing a post about some weird a$$ Trade Route listings and I guess someone found a h@ck to drain TR wallets. Does anyboudg have any deets about this? http:/[traderoute forums]/viewtopic.php?id=2124
Someone posted:
please checkout this strange listing: small house for children very sketchy and could be a a market vulnerability.
And trade route admin replied:
Hello,
Yes, that was a vulnerability, an user found an intrincate way to steal funds from us and he used multiple vendor account and those listings to steal. He went away with around 100k$, we'll take this as a loss. We already released the patch and moved on.
The damage that can be done by robberies in TR is very limited as our hot wallet is very small, rest assured that 95% of the funds are always safely stored in cold wallets. Also multisignature or security escrow transactions are totally safe, this only could affect the normal escrow balance.
It's sad to see this happening but there's a lot of hackers and thieves focused on darknet markets. We are doing our best to keep the market updated and bug-free.
Best regards!
/u/hugbunter - were you aware of that bug?
EDIT: I 'member seeing a post from a buyer saying he got his withdrawal twice. He made a post saying that when he made a w/d, trade reported an error. He made the withdrawal again and BOTH went through. The post was deleted or removed soon after. Wonder if that 'ploit was related?
I saw this yesterday, none of this adds up at all.
Suspicious timing with my hack. If this is genuine, then someone may have used my vuln to do this.
There is no way they have 100k in profit, nevermind in cash reserves that they can just swallow.
Blockchain proof?
This looks more like an attempt to bury the huge vulnerability with a less serious exploit that they are willing to swallow 100k over to have a good reflection from their users. Something smells.