Kelp DAO Hacker Just Moved $175 Million In Ethereum And Started Laundering It...
One of DeFi’s largest exploits in recent memory took a new turn on Tuesday as Arbitrum’s Security Council moved to freeze $71 million of the stolen funds — and the attacker responded almost immediately. The incident began when an unknown attacker exploited a vulnerability in Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge, draining 116,500 rsETH — approximately $292 […]
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The DAO hacker has moved his stolen Ethereum from the Ethereum Classic chain, donating part of it to the Ethereum Classic developers. The move of the stolen funds from the DAO hack occurred earlier this week. As his first action with the funds the hacker sent 1,000 ETC, about $1,500, to the address associated with Ethereum Classic’s development team, leading to speculation that the initial hack might have been motivated by a desire to fork Ethereum (which ended up being a result of the hack). Ethereum’s long and complicated hacking saga. The hacker exploited a vulnerability in the DAO’s....
Wu Blockchain reports that Kelp DAO has suffered a massive cross-chain exploit that drained approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at nearly $292 million. The incident raises fresh concerns about the protocol’s security, coming less than a year after a previous disruption tied to a smart contract bug Related Reading: $20M Crypto Scam Lands Texas Man 23-Year […]
A market expert has outlined a major security incident that occurred last weekend, explaining its implications for XRP holders earning yield. On Saturday, April 18, an attacker exploited the LayerZero-powered bridge of Kelp DAO, draining a staggering $292 million in tokens from the liquid staking protocol. So far, the incident marks the largest DeFi hack […]
After the embarrassing failure of the DAO in 2016, the Ethereum Foundation moved quickly to address the problem by implementing a hard fork. On July 20, 2016, the new code went into effect, reversing transactions that allowed a hacker to bleed $50 million out of the $150 million venture fund in the wee hours of June 17. That DAO hard fork was not popular, but it was effective. The majority of miners moved over to the new chain, and the DAO funds went into a new smart contract, so the original investors could safely withdraw their funds. To be clear, the Ethereum network itself was not....
$258 million worth of stolen crypto assets have been returned so far and the hacker claims they are keeping the rest of the funds safe while they negotiate with Poly. The Poly Network hacker has now returned $258 million to the cross-chain DeFi protocol and conducted a question and answer session detailing how the initial hack went down. In what is being described as the largest DeFi hack to date, the Poly Network suffered a $612 million exploit on Aug. 10 which saw the hacker steal assets from Ethereum, Binance Chain and the Polygon Network.Tom Robinson, the chief scientist at blockchain....