Defi Platform Cream Finance Hacked, $29 Million Lost
Cream finance, a defi borrowing and lending protocol, has been the victim of a hack that erased more than $29 million from its vaults. The attacker took advantage of a loophole in the implementation for adding the amp token to the protocol. This is the second time the platform has been involved in a hack. The first breach happened in February, when Cream lost $37.5 million. Cream Protocol Suffers Hack Cream protocol, a defi lending-borrowing platform present on four different chains (Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, and Fantom), suffered a hack Monday that resulted in the loss of $29....
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PeckShield reported through a tweet of the new hack on Cream Finance. The blockchain security company said a flash loan attack on the decentralized finance lending and borrowing protocol. #FlashLoanAlert https://t.co/JPW7e368qd — PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) August 30, 2021 PeckShield explained that the hacking came through a 500 Ethereum flash loan from the attacker. This was used to infiltrate a reentrancy bug in the smart contract of the Flex Network. Usually, flash loans being undercollateralized can be borrowed and repaid within a single transaction. Related Reading |....
Hackers run wild, but DeFi marches on — all that and more in this week's Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest iteration of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.Just as quickly as the summer departed from our calendars, millions of funds were hacked from the wallets of Cream Finance. This has been another jam-packed week in the DeFi space. Here are some top picks for the biggest stories in what is my debut appearance as Finance Redefined’s newsletter writer.What you’re reading is the shorter, snappier version of the newsletter. For the full roundup of DeFi developments....
Cream Finance has identified the AMP integration error that caused a nearly $19 million loss for the protocol and aims to pay users back. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance will pay back its users following a $18.8 million flash loan hack that occurred on Aug. 30.Cream has published a post-mortem to the AMP flash loan exploit, promising to replace the stolen Ether (ETH) and Amp (AMP) tokens by allocating 20% of all protocol fees until the debt is paid entirely. Cream will also post collateral with relevant parties at AMP and its creators, Flexa digital payments network, to....
Cream Finance is the latest Ethereum DeFi protocol to suffer another hack. The attackers had used a flash loan attack and made away with $130 million. Cream Finance confirmed the attack via a Twitter post where the project revealed that they were investigating the cause of the hack. The exploit had exposed vulnerabilities in the […]
According to the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Crema Finance, the application was hacked on July 2, 2022. A Twitter account called “Solanafm” says the defi protocol lost around $8.7 million from the attack.
Crema Finance Vulnerability Causes Defi App to Lose Millions — 6 Flashloans Executed
Another defi protocol has lost funds to a hacker as the Solana liquidity application disclosed it was attacked on Saturday, July 2, 2022.
“Attention,” Crema Finance wrote on Saturday. “Our protocol seems to have just experienced a....