Sports NFT Marketplace Lympo Suffers An $18.7 Million Hack

Sports NFT Marketplace Lympo Suffers An $18.7 Million Hack

The latest in the industry is the hacking of Lympo, a sports NFT platform and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Through hot wallet hacking, the platform just lost about 165.2 million LMT tokens, equivalent to $18.7 million during the time of this hack. Cryptocurrency hacking, though not frequently experienced, remains of the risks that some protocols have to suffer. An update through Medium from the Lympo team confirms the recent hacking from the platform on Jan 10. According to the report, the hackers accessed the protocol’s operational hot wallet and looted about 165.2 million LMT tokens.....


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