This was posted on Duelbits Telegram and X accounts :
Dear Duelbits Community,
In response to the recent posts, we wish to assure everyone that all Duelbits customer funds and accounts are safe and secure.
Our ETH hot wallet recently experienced a security breach, resulting in the unauthorized withdrawal of a small amount of our ETH reserve (~1700 ETH). We have alerted law enforcement and are working hard to address the situation.
However, we want to reassure the Duelbits community that the security of user accounts has not been compromised and remains our highest priority.
Despite this unfortunate incident, all our services continue to operate smoothly and without interruption.
Funds are Safu 😉
It’s a very unfortunate incident for Duelbits facing such a loss, to me 1700 ETH is a very big sum and still a big loss for my favorite casino. The good thing is players are not touched and nobody is facing any losses or breaches towards their accounts or wallets.
However, these cases seems to be avoidable since we have witnessed many similar cases with different casinos and crypto services. Is there a problem with the wallets and withdrawal system or it’s the security system that has many breaches where hackers uses and can’t be avoidable in any case?
I’m glad to see that many users didn’t even notice this which means nothing really is effected but still the team cleared things quickly and are dealing with the hacker to recover those funds and in worse scenarios it’s just a small loss and a notice to secure things more not just for Duelbits but all other crypto casinos.
This level of transparency makes Duelbits more reputable than ever. As you already mention, players don’t notice this while Duelbits can just hide it to avoid panic to players yet they still decided to become transparent on the issue and assure everything is fine. Although that amount is huge but we all know that Duelbits usually provide larger than that amount on their giveaways which means they can easily recover it as long as there’s still a lot of players trusting the brand.
Honestly, we will never be informed about this issue if they didn’t make an announcement unlike what happened to Stake hack that was find out by 3rd party that’s why it’s spread like a wild fire on the social media.
Well this is something that we cannot easily deduce, as long as we are seeing these types of cases and it is good that they release it to the community so that they can see that when you are in a very transparent casino things are very accurate in showing how What happened, obviously there are vulnerabilities in the places, that some do them to steal, which is not the right thing to do, but even so this casino did not close its doors or anything like that, they just took and told the information and that's it, too The authorities were able to alert them and let's see what they come up with, if the authorities are everything they have promised, then they can make sure that they return that money, a challenge because it will be a sign that the authorities and the government will not do anything even if we have our data In the casinos, that's how it is, however I find what happened very sad, because obtaining money fraudulently will never be a good thing, in fact the people who do this are condemned.
But the act of having participated seems very good to me, because we as clients, as players who sometimes go and approach the site because we need to know these types of things to be able to do things well and know more about which casinos to always trust , this is something we should see, well with respect to sstake.com it is always like that, they can turn everything into a gunshot, but even so the casio was very emphatic, they closed for a few hours and then they continued working What happened is that stake.com is a much larger casino with many more players and they had to protect people's funds very well, that is something we must understand, however they said, they declared about the theft and they put us on alert, this is something that should not be denied, they also participated in it.
As these casinos and as there are many exchanges, we must know very well that we are in an environment where this can happen and nothing is certain.