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The attacker also sent 1 million OP to Vitalik Buterin and retained 2 million tokens as a bounty reward. Optimism Attacker Gives Back Loot The attacker who stole 20 million... origin »
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The attacker has already cashed out 1 million tokens and kept an additional 1 million.
2022-6-10 18:26 | |
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Terra’s Mirror Protocol is experiencing an attack, with the attacker draining over $2 million already. The exploit remains unpatched and could get much worse in the coming hours. The post Terra’s Mirror Protocol Could Collapse Due to Latest Exploit appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-5-31 11:16 | |
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The attacker reportedly flashloaned 350M $Dai, 500M $USDC, 150M $USDT, 32M $Bean, 11.6M $LUSD 2 from three dexes before adding the amounts to Curve.fi with BEAN for the governance voting.
2022-4-18 22:54 | |
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North Korea-based hacker the Lazarus Group is allegedly the attacker that stole $625 million from the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge, according to new details from US officials. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (FDAC), on Thursday, updated its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person’s List (SDN).
2022-4-15 23:44 | |
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On 15 March, an attacker siphoned over $11 million from two DeFi platforms, Agave and Hundred Finance. It appeared to be a flash loan 'reentrancy attack' on both protocols on the Gnosis chain as per iThe post How these two DeFi protocols fell prey to $11 million 'reentrancy attack' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-3-16 13:30 | |
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Developers have successfully patched a loophole used by an attacker to exploit Wormhole, a bridge protocol used to transfer tokens between the Solana and Ethereum networks. According to a tweet by Wormhole, facts that ZyCrypto can now confirm following a series of ETH transactions, the attacker had exploited a vulnerability on the bridge, siphoning 120k […]
2022-2-3 14:27 | |
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An attacker has stolen nearly $100 million in PYR tokens from NFT marketplace Vulcan Forged, it announced on Twitter. The team will replace the stolen funds and has begun an investigation. The post Nearly $100 Million in PYR Stolen From Vulcan Forged NFT Marketplace appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-12-13 10:19 | |
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In its post mortem of the third hack of this year, this time of $130 million, Cream Finance shared that they are working with the authorities to trace the attacker. In the hack, only the Ethereum v1 markets were impacted, and all the other v1 markets and the Iron Bank were safe, it added.
2021-11-1 20:22 | |
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Cream Finance has suffered yet another flash loan exploit, its third of the year, this time losing $130 million. The attacker used the lending markets on Ethereum C. R. E. A. M v1 to manipulate the price of yUSD and make off with the funds.
2021-10-28 09:51 | |
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The hacker who stole $16 million from Indexed Finance DeFi pools last week is refusing to return the funds. The team, which has identified the attacker, will now contact law enforcement. The post Indexed Finance Attacker Refuses to Return Stolen $16M, Team Approaching Authorities appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-10-20 09:48 | |
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The DeFi protocol was hacked on Thursday, with the attacker allegedly stealing $16 million… The post Indexed Finance ‘identifies’ attacker behind $16 million hack appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-10-18 13:56 | |
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pNetwork, a cross-chain DeFi platform, lost roughly 277 Bitcoins to the tune of $12. 7 million in a recent hack. The platform confirmed on Twitter that the attacker targeted tokenized Bitcoin on the BiThe post DeFi platform pNetwork loses $12.
2021-9-20 12:30 | |
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SushiSwap (SUSHI/USD) one of the most popular decentralized crypto exchanges, recently saw a supply chain attack that targeted its token launchpad, MISO. According to what is known, the attacker managed to change a smart contract address, putting down the one they own and control.
2021-9-19 12:01 | |
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In the aftermath of the Poly Network exploit, in which the attacker stole more than $600 million worth of crypto, just to return the biggest portion of the take, the network continues mitigating the damage and fixes its vulnerabilities, while continuing a dialogue with the responsive hacker.
2021-8-19 09:57 | |
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The attacker of cross-chain Poly Network has already started to return the $611 million worth of crypto assets just a day after stealing them. “Its already a legend to win so much fortune. It will be an eternal legend to save the world.
2021-8-12 18:00 | |
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ChainSwap has experienced another exploit in what has turned out to be a terrifying month for the exchange. The platform which acts as a bridge for assets had succumbed to an exploit earlier this month, and now, only eight days later, ChainSwap has succumbed to another exploit.
2021-7-14 02:00 | |
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The team has paused minting, and will have to use a manual workaround to prevent further exploits.
2021-5-9 17:46 | |
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A cryptocurrency exchange with about 2 million users worldwide announced that it has “suffered a serious cyber attack. ” A number of basic services are paralyzed and the attacker tried to access the exchange’s wallets.
2021-5-1 03:30 | |
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Seized funds bring the damage down to $9 million as multiple communities ponder the next step in reimbursing user funds
2021-2-6 18:49 | |
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A developer from Yearn Finance has reported that its v1 yDAI vault was exploited by a malicious actor in the early hours of Feb. 5. He added that the attacker got away with $2. 8 million, and the vault lost $11 million.
2021-2-5 09:27 | |
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Decentralized finance insurance project Cover protocol briefly suffered losses when an unknown attacker minted over 40 quintillion Cover tokens. However, after successfully cashing out tokens worth about $5 million, the attacker unexpectedly returned ether tokens valued at about $3.
2020-12-31 17:05 | |
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Nexus Mutual founder and chief executive officer Hugh Karp’s personal wallet address has been hacked for more than $8 million. The attacker, a member of the Nexus defi protocol, tricked Karp into signing a transaction that transferred funds to the hacker’s own address.
2020-12-16 09:00 | |
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Call it a hack or call it an exploit, yesterday an unknown attacker managed to drain $20 million from an Ethereum-based yield aggregator called Pickle Finance into their own address. The post How YFI competitor Pickle Finance was exploited for $20m in Ethereum stablecoins appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-11-23 21:12 | |
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The perils of decentralized finance in the spotlight yet again after the latest major DeFi exploit
2020-11-22 00:14 | |
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Decentralized finance (defi) protocol Akropolis was on Thursday hacked for $2 million in DAI, in the latest flash loan attack to hit the nascent defi industry. The attacker pilfered the platform’s Ycurve pool in batches of $50,000 in the stablecoin DAI.
2020-11-14 17:15 | |
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Akropolis has reportedly been hacked, with the attacker making off with $2 million in DAI tokens. Details of the Akropolis Hack Tweeting on Nov. 12, the project revealed: “We recently identified a hack executed across a body of smart contracts in the ‘savings pools’ that have been audited twice.
2020-11-12 22:52 | |
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Early Monday, the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) project Harvest Finance, was exploited. It was estimated that $33. 8 million of the funds, about 3. 2% of the total value locked in the protocol before the attack, was lost.
2020-10-31 22:08 | |
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Earlier this week, an economic exploit using flash loans was conducted on decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol Harvest Finance enabling the attacker to get away with $33. 8 million — initially believed to be roughly $24 million.
2020-10-31 21:33 | |
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Decentralized finance (defi protocol) Harvest Finance was hacked on Monday for $24 million. The attacker targeted the protocol’s liquidity pools, performing an arbitrage attack using a large flash loan – a type of uncollatarized loan – but later returned $2.
2020-10-26 17:45 | |
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According to reports on Oct 26. 2020, nearly $24 million in value has been siphoned from the liquidity pools of Harvest Finance, a major decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Harvest Finance subsequently confirmed the hack, stating that the protocol is “working actively on the issue of mitigating the economic attack on the Stablecoin and BTC pools.
2020-10-26 15:17 | |
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DeFi lending project bZx has been able to recover about $8 million in cryptocurrency from an attacker who stole the funds after exploiting a code bug over the weekend.
2020-9-15 19:00 | |
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OKEx will consider delisting Ethereum Classic (ETC) following the recent 51% attacks that saw the crypto exchange lose $5. 6 million. This was prompted by a double-spend where the attacker created confusion by launching a ‘shadow chain’ and leveraging OKEx’s high ETC liquidity.
2020-8-19 21:47 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5. 6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to the platform’s users.
2020-8-18 01:00 | |
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The attacker attempted to double-spend roughly $3.3 million during the second attack.
2020-8-8 16:58 | |
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It hasn’t been even a week since Ethereum Classic suffered a 51% attack where the attacker got its hands on $5. 7 million that the blockchain had yet another “large 51% attack. ” As reported by Bitfly, this attack has caused a reorganization of more than 4000 blocks.
2020-8-6 16:30 | |
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Ethereum Classic has suffered a 4,000-block long reorganization, its second such incident in five days. The first attack, which saw more than 3,000 blocks reorged, saw an attacker steal more than 800,000 ETC, worth about $5.6 million.
2020-8-6 08:10 | |
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The attacker responsible for the $25 million theft from DeFi protocol, dForce, has returned all of the funds. There has been no explanation for the change of heart, but it is suspected that a lack of thoroughness in covering up his tracks led the attacker to return the funds, in order to avoid further investigation.
2020-4-21 11:56 | |
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By CCN: Cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange shattered by an over $16 million hack earlier this year, is in a huge mess as a third-party server host demands $2 million to release customer data. The fall of Cryptopia In January, Cryptopia got hacked two times.
2019-5-27 14:20 | |
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The New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia, which fell to its doom due to a security breach that occurred earlier this year, continues to stay in the headlines. The attacker, who almost drained the exchange’s entire Ethereum wallets, has been transferring the stolen funds since the beginning of the day.
2019-5-20 20:32 | |
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Binance Attacker Moves Stolen Bitcoin To Just Seven Addresses The cryptocurrency exchange Binance was hacked a few days ago and lost 7,074 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $40 million at the time of the attack. The hacker seems to be moving the fund to other addresses in an attempt to withdraw or obfuscate the funds that it […]
2019-5-9 20:46 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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According to a new research report by Messari, Stellar had a bug which was abused by a user to create 2. 25 million XLM, worth approximately $10 million in 2017. This bug was identified by Stellar’s Development Foundation [SDF] and patched thereafter.
2019-3-27 18:15 | |
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SIM-swapping has plagued cryptocurrency holders for close to a year, and now Google’s head of account security has had enough. He wants to put a stop to it with a clever gadget the size of a flash drive.
2019-1-23 13:03 | |
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American retail behemoth Target has come out to clarify that a tweet it posted, containing a link to a Bitcoin giveaway scam, came from a third-party software provider – not Twitter. In an email to Hard Fork, a company spokesperson said – contrary to what it suggested previously – Target’s Twitter account was never inappropriately accessed.
2018-11-15 14:12 | |
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A minor altcoin called Pigeoncoin has suffered a small-scale attack resulting in the theft of 235 million PGN tokens, worth approximately $15,000. Some have mocked the attacker’s modest gains, with ZDNet wryly headlining the story “Hacker wastes entire day only to make $15,000.
2018-10-9 01:36 | |
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Using a major bug found and fixed on bitcoin last month, an attacker was able to print 235 million coins on "pigeoncoin."
2018-10-3 23:05 | |
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Facebook today announced a data breach occurred on September 25 affecting at least 50 million Facebook accounts. The social network disclosed the breach Friday morning, issuing a statement that said an “attack” on its system led to “the exposure of information” affecting the 50 million users, according to the New York Times.
2018-9-28 20:09 | |
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Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Optimism’s governance has approved a new buyback program that links the OP token more closely to revenue generated across the Superchain. The vote passed on Jan. 28 with 84.4% approval from the Optimism community, comfortably exceeding quorum. Over the course…
The Hyperliquid Foundation has donated 10,000 HYPE tokens to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. The contribution, valued at approximately $254,000, ranks as his second-largest donation from any single entity.
The proposal could redefine how OP captures value across the Superchain ecosystem if passed in the upcoming governance vote.
Optimism is proposing a structural change that ties its token directly to network activity and Superchain revenue. Optimism is moving towards a model that would see OP transition from a purely governance token. In a Jan. 8 blog post, the…
Celestia, Virtuals, and Optimism were among 2025’s worst-performing tokens. We unpack their steep drops, and what triggered the declines. The post Worst Performing Altcoins of 2025: What Went Wrong appeared first on Coinspeaker.
Optimism has outlined its timeline for Superchain Upgrade 16a, a safety-focused upgrade designed to give chains more flexibility and developers better tools. Optimism has unveiled plans for its next major network upgrade which aims to boost safety and flexibility across…
Optimism (OP), the native token of Ethereum’s Layer-2 scaling network, has captured investor attention after a listing announcement from South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit. The listing news has triggered a surge in both price and trading activity, lifting OP to a two-month high and reinforcing its bullish trend. As traders watch closely for what’s […]