DeFi Founder Targeted in $8m Hack Says He Has His Hacker’s IP
The decentralized finance (DeFi) space was rocked last morning by news that Nexus Mutual founder Hugh Karp was hit with a personal attack. His project, a decentralized mutual product to allow users to hedge against risks in the DeFi space, was not directly affected. But, his personal account, which contained over $8 million worth of […]
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The crypto market has been rocked by the news of what might be the biggest DeFi hack in history. On August 10th, the exploitation on the Poly Network saw the hacker(s) make away with more than $600 million in crypto. A hack that shook the entire DeFi market to its very core. The hacker made off with a loot of over $200 million in ETH. And hundreds of millions in tokens. After a warning from a user warning that their USDT address had been blacklisted, the hacker then sent approximately $42K in ETH to the address which issued the warning. Resulting in hundreds of transactions being sent to....
The DeFi hacker’s initial intentions remain unclear, but they refused to accept a $500,000 bounty after returning all funds. Although it seemed crypto hacks were on the decline, just recently, the market bore witness to one of the largest-ever attacks in the young history of decentralized finance (DeFi), wherein an unknown hacker was able to exploit a loophole in cross-chain protocol Poly Network’s digital framework, thereby walking away with a cool $610 million from three separate blockchains.The Poly Network is a collaborative project helmed by Ontology, Neo and Switcheo. It seeks to....
The hackers took on one of the biggest names in DeFi, but may have bitten off more than they could chew as "Arthur_0x" warned, “you messed with the wrong person.” Founder of major crypto investment firm DeFiance Capital, “Arthur_0x”, has suffered a hack on one of his hot wallets resulting in the loss of more than $1.6 million in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto.In a tremendous show of support, the crypto community has come to his aid to help retrieve the stolen items as he asked people to blacklist the hacker’s wallet. Several individuals on Twitter have attempted to determine exactly....
While awaiting Crema Finance’s report on the situation, the Crypto Twitter community took it to themselves to track down the hacker’s wallet and better understand the problem. Crema Finance, a concentrated liquidity protocol over the Solana blockchain, announced the temporary suspension of its services owing to a successful exploit that has drained a substantial but undisclosed amount of funds.Soon after realizing the hack on its protocol, Crema Finance suspended the liquidity services to refrain the hacker from draining out its liquidity reserves — which include the funds of the service....
Majority of the DeFi tokens in Top-100 traded in red barring a few, thanks to the weekend rout in the market correction towards the end of the week. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.The TranitSwap hacker that got away with $23 million has returned 70% of the stolen funds. The return was possible due to quick actions from on-chain data analytic firms who managed to find the hacker’s IP address and other personal details.Another research report from....