Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said there were “widespread API key leaks” from trading bot platform 3Commas.
Speaking on Twitter, CZ said he was “reasonably confident” about these leaks.
Binance CEO Warns of Leak
A spokesperson for 3Commas confirmed the leak in a statement to The Block.
CZ used the following statements in his warning:
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1608182790540902407
API keys in 3Commas were previously used for unauthorized transactions in FTX. The platform team was alerted to the incident on October 20 that FTX API keys connected to the platform were used to perform unauthorized transactions.
3Commas said in a statement at the time that the API keys were not obtained from them, and that they were probably obtained in a phishing attack by a third party.
A spokesperson for 3Commas stated that the company saw a hacker message for the incident today and confirmed that the data that emerged was real.
A spokesperson for the platform said in an email to The Block:
The company also stated that they could not find any evidence that this incident was done “from the inside”.