Банк стабільних монет Kontigo зазнав атаки зловмисників: вже виплачено 340 000 доларів США, менше ніж місяць до закінчення фінансування — несподіваний інцидент

【Blockchain News】Kontigo, a Latin American stablecoin bank, just went through a tough battle. The startup that entered the market this year with Y Combinator backing discovered a serious security vulnerability over the weekend and responded remarkably fast — immediately patching it. By January 6th, the company had completed full compensation to 1005 affected users, totaling 340,900 USD in stablecoin without a single penny missing.

What made things more painful was that CEO Jesus A. Castillo’s personal account wasn’t spared either. The co-founder stated directly on social media that this was a direct attack targeting the company’s management and users. He also declared that he has already identified the attackers and they “won’t get away.”

The timing was a bit awkward. Just on December 22nd, Kontigo announced the completion of a 20 million USD seed round financing, led by FoundersX Ventures, originally planning to use this capital to accelerate product development and expand into emerging markets. Yet less than two weeks later, this happened.

However, from the data, this company is indeed running fast — established less than a year ago, it has already achieved 30 million USD annualized revenue, processed over 1 billion USD in payment volume, and 1 million+ active users. More exaggerated is that only 7 people on the team support this scale. But Kontigo has also made news before for “debanking” issues with frozen bank accounts. Although Castillo denied it was a banking problem, saying the responsibility lies with intermediaries, once a trust crisis emerges, it’s hard to completely eliminate it.