Security News > 2021 > May > U.S. Government Asks Victims of 2017 EtherDelta Hack to Come Forward
The U.S. government is hoping to obtain additional information on the 2017 hacker attack targeting the EtherDelta cryptocurrency trading platform and it has asked victims of the incident to come forward.
EtherDelta was a decentralized trading platform for Ether and Ethereum-based tokens.
According to U.S. authorities, Anthony Tyler Nashatka of Michigan and Elliott Gunton from the United Kingdom in December 2017 managed to steal at least $1.4 million worth of cryptocurrency as a result of a cyberattack targeting EtherDelta.
The Justice Department said Nashatka and Gunton abused a legitimate account to gain access to EtherDelta DNS settings and changed them so that legitimate users would be redirected to a phishing website they controlled.
Over the course of two days in December 2017, Nashatka and Gunton allegedly stole the credentials of hundreds of users and abused them to steal roughly $600,000.
He is still charged in the United States for his alleged role in the EtherDelta hack.