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3 Jun 2023

Atomic Wallet: June 2023 Client Compromise Event

Atomic Wallet: early Jun 2023 a subset of users lost funds. Atomic said less than 0.1% of users were affected and listed possible causes without confirming a single root cause.

  • Event date
  • Incident typeWallet client compromise
  • Bug classNot yet published
  • Published

Loss, as sourced

Not quantified by Atomic. Secondary estimates ranged ~$35M to over $100M; not adopted here.

Traceability

Primary sources

  1. 01atomicwallet.ioAtomic Wallet blog / June 2023 event statement channels (opens in a new tab)

In brief

Root cause: Per Atomic June statement: investigating local malware, infrastructure breach, code injection, or MITM — root cause not confirmed there.

Timeline, as sourced: 3 Jun 2023 event; later updates claiming no new cases.

Account, as sourced

Claimed (Atomic Wallet): <0.1% users affected.

Summaries of public sources as of the published date; except where marked (on-chain), not independently verified by NullMeridian. Figures are the sources’ own and are attributed; where sources disagree, each is given. Sources may since have changed. Not legal, financial or investment advice.

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