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GainSwap

Rug pull on Jun 8, 2021 · Rug Pull

ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$8M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#352
among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

At around 4:00 a.m. on June 8, the GainSwap project, which had been online for less than 12 hours, suddenly swept away nearly $8 million in digital assets pledged by users, closed the website access, and then entered a state of losing contact and running away. This is also Heco. One of the projects with the largest amount of running away on the show. In January 2022, according to the public security information of Chizhou City, Anhui Province, the police in Chizhou City recently cracked a case of illegally obtaining virtual currency data from a computer system using blockchain technology, involving a value of about 50 million yuan. After the cooperation of the police in Guangdong, Sichuan and Hunan, all eight suspects were arrested. The police seized and seized the assets involved in the case, such as villas and luxury cars worth tens of millions purchased by the suspect with the full amount of the stolen money, and frozen about 6 million virtual assets.

Details

Date
Jun 8, 2021
Kind
Rug pull
Method
Rug Pull
How in
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
Target
not stated
Chains
HECO

After the theft

Frozen
yes, amount not stated
“The police seized and seized the assets involved in the case, such as villas and luxury cars worth tens of millions purchased by the suspect with the full amount of the stolen money, and frozen about 6 million virtual assets.” (SlowMist Hacked)
Recovered or seized
yes, amount not stated
“The police seized and seized the assets involved in the case, such as villas and luxury cars worth tens of millions purchased by the suspect with the full amount of the stolen money, and frozen about 6 million virtual assets.” (SlowMist Hacked)

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