Crypto Company Ripple Backs Out of Fortress Trust Purchase

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Less than a month after Ripple said it had agreed to acquire custodian Fortress Trust, the crypto company is backing out of the deal.

“While this outcome is different from what was originally planned, we’ll continue to support them and hope to work together in the future!” Ripple Chief Executive Officer Brad Garlinghouse wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Ripple said on Sept. 8 that it intended to acquire Fortress Trust, which also provides wallets and payments services. In a text message to Bloomberg, Purcell said a third-party service had experienced a security breach but that his company had not itself been hacked, and that “6 out of Fortress’s 250,000+ customers used it to log into their accounts.”

Ripple may have to wait to get that $15 million back, Purcell said. “At some point we will pay them back, likely when we collect” from the third party that experienced the hack, he said.

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