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Gamdom founder confirms $3M hot-wallet breach after platform goes offline
The outage did not erase search demand in the markets where Blask could measure Gamdom daily.
On 13 October, Gamdom took its systems offline after staff checking a suspected disk fault found an unauthorized connection to an automation server. Founder Felix Romer confirmed on 14 October that attackers drained just over $3M from hot wallets before the operator halted outflows and moved remaining balances to cold storage. Gamdom said player funds were safe, but recovery was still incomplete on 15 October.
Wallet trackers flagged large outflows from Gamdom-linked hot wallets between about 15:50 and 16:50 UTC on 13 October across Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Tron and the XRP Ledger. Romer’s figure sits below the roughly $4.2M total some blockchain analysts quoted for the same flows.
Blask data tracks Gamdom in 81 GEOs. Daily Blask Index was measurable in only ten of them for 9–15 October. France, Norway, Australia and the United Kingdom led that slice; Turkey and Finland dropped out of the daily feed after 12–13 October.
Search demand rose after the shutdown. In Norway, BAP moved from 13.3% on 12 October to 22.7% on 14 October and 37.7% on 15 October — the steepest climb in the measurable set. France and the United Kingdom posted similar post-outage jumps on 14 October, from thin bases.
For an offshore crypto casino, the breach is an operational crisis. In the week Blask data could observe, measurable markets showed news-driven search rather than a demand exit.