Binance CEO Says Exchange Recovered $450 Million From the Curve Finance Attack
Following the recent Curve Finance attack, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the exchange had recovered $450 million from hackers. The decentralized finance (defi) platform Curve saw roughly $570 million siphoned from the application on August 9. Binance Boss Says Exchange Froze 83% of the Curve Finance Hack Funds, Domain Provider Says Exploit Was DNS Cache Poisoning Four days ago, the crypto community was made aware that the Curve Finance front end was exploited. Curve fixed the situation but $570 million was removed from the defi protocol. The attackers, however, decided to send....
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Binance recovered and froze around $450,000 worth of the stolen assets, which is around 80 percent of the stolen funds. Crypto exchange Binance has recovered a big part of the funds from the recent hack that targeted the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance. In a tweet, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the exchange has frozen and recovered $450,000 of the stolen assets, which is more than 80 percent of the stolen funds. According to Zhao, the hacker tried to send the funds to the exchange in various ways but was detected by Binance. The exchange is currently working....
Via their official Twitter handle, the Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance has confirmed a vulnerability in their nameserver or frontend curve.fi which was successfully reverted. Earlier, the team behind the project advised caution to its users and claimed an investigation has been launched to look into any potential vulnerabilities exploit. Related Reading: TA- My Neighbor Alice Could Be Set For A Major Bounce – Eyes $5 The team behind the project said: The issue has been found and reverted. If you have approved any contracts on Curve in the past few hours,....
Reports indicate that the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Curve was hacked for $570,000 in ethereum after people noticed that Curve’s front end was exploited. The attackers then tried to launder the funds via the crypto exchange Fixedfloat, and the trading platform’s team managed to freeze $200K worth of the stolen funds. Curve Finance Exploited for $570K — Fixedfloat Exchange Freezes More Than $200K, Domain Service Blamed Another defi hack was discovered on August 9, when the Paradigm researcher Samczsun tweeted that Curve Finance’s frontend was....
The exchange cited technical issues as the reasons for halting withdrawals across multiple networks earlier this morning. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced a temporary freeze on withdrawals on Wednesday morning. The suspension took place across multiple networks as a result of a technical issue by a third-party provider, according to Binance. In a tweet, the exchange said the incident took place around 7:00 am UTC and was resolved by the team within an hour. Earlier today, around 07:00am UTC, #Binance temporarily closed withdrawals for multiple networks due to an issue with a....
The latest in a recent spate of decentralized finance hacks. Another decentralized finance protocol was subject to a major exploit on Friday, May 28, after $7.2 million was drained from BurgerSwap (BURGER) on Binance Smart Chain.Varying amounts of seven different cryptocurrencies were stolen amid the attack, including $3.2 million worth of BURGER tokens, $1.6 million worth of Wrapped BNB (WBNB) and $1.4 million worth of Tether (USDT). The funds were still being sold off at time of publication.BurgerSwap launched in late 2020 as what was thought to be a clone of the Uniswap decentralized....