Trading giant hacked to steal $6 million

CS.MONEY, one of the largest platforms for trading CS:GO skins, has taken its website offline after a hacker attack allowed threat actors to loot 20,000 items worth nearly $6,000,000.

CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) is the fourth version of the immensely popular multiplayer first-person shooter that became free-to-play in 2018, maintaining the strong competitive play of the series.

CS.MONEY is one of the largest trading sites of this kind, featuring 1,696 unique skins for 53 weapons and managing a total asset worth of $16,500,000, dropping to $10,500,000 after the cyberattack.

The platform is still restoring its services and has entered the third day of its extended outage, while the impacted users still haven’t recovered their stolen items.

Recently, CS.MONEY announced on Twitter that it was agreed among other trading platforms to block trading of the 20,000 stolen items, preventing the hackers from selling them on other CS:GO trading platforms.

In the same time, anonymous poop gifting site ShitExpress, a web service that lets you send a box of feces along with a personalized message to friends and enemies, has been breached after a "customer" spotted a vulnerability.