FTX to give a ‘one-time’ $6M compensation to phishing victims

Cointelegraph

Published Oct 24, 2022 02:12AM ET

Updated Oct 25, 2022 04:20AM ET

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX will provide around $6 million in compensation to victims of a phishing scam that allowed hackers to conduct unauthorized trades on certain FTX users’ accounts.

FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried posted in a Twitter thread on Oct. 23 that the exchange generally doesn’t award compensation to its users “phished by fake versions of other companies in the space,” but in this case, it would compensate users.

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