CoinDesk has not been able to verify the claim independently with law enforcement, and neither Dahake nor BitBNS has not responded to our requests for comments.
“We immediately contacted law enforcement,” after the hack, said Dahake, who also claimed to “have proper logs and case IDs,” to support this.
The hack was first uncovered and made public by prominent crypto sleuth ZachXBT, with a tweet on Wednesday asking his followers to “call out the crypto exchange” for hiding the incident from users.
“Law enforcement advised us that the users should be educated about the incident only after the investigation is completed or reaches a dead end,” Dahake said while adding that some funds were recovered with the help of authorities and other exchanges.
Dahake invited others to help with the case and said he had “sort of spoke” with ZachXBT in the interest of trying “to weed out the bad actors.”
The exchange remains live. “As long as it is legal to run the exchange, we will continue to keep serving the users,” Dahake said.
