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PANews reported on September 14 that according to Cointelegraph, stablecoin issuer Paxos admitted in a statement that the account that paid nearly 20 BTC in a single transaction in the early morning of September 11 belonged to the company. Paxos claims that end users have not been affected and all user funds are safe.
The announcement comes after users on the X platform speculated that PayPal could be responsible for the transaction, as analytics platform OXT identified relevant wallet accounts belonging to PayPal. A Paxos spokesperson said: "PayPal does not bear any responsibility for this because this error was caused by Paxos itself. This transaction affected Paxos company operations, Paxos customers and end users were not affected, and all customer funds are safe. This This was caused by a vulnerability in a single transfer, which has now been fixed. Paxos is contacting miners to recover the funds."
It is reported that the block containing the transaction has been confirmed by the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool. F2Pool Lianchuang has stated that it will temporarily shelve nearly 20 BTC in abnormal transactions and redistribute them to miners if no one claims them.