Nearly $16M on CoinDCX’s deprecated address came from one wallet in 88 transfers, raising fresh questions about the exchange’s sweep failure explanation.
On October 25, 2026, CoinDCX confirmed that it lost 15.99 million USDT from retired wallets. Before that, on October 22, CEO Sumit Gupta had dismissed the breach warnings as just a possible "false...
The Mumbai-based exchange initially dismissed reports of suspicious outflows as a false alarm. It now says it lost $16 million and will absorb the loss.
USDC lost $4.69 billion in 30 days, about 80% of the net decline across 13 large stablecoins, as the market slid to $300.36 billion on October 25.
The exchange said the loss was absorbed by the company and customer funds remained unaffected.
CoinDCX admits a deposit sweep failure after $15.99 million in USDT was drained from TRON wallets, with Tether freezing $2.21 million.
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