OpenSea Investigating ‘Exploit Rumors’ as Users Complain of Missing NFTs
Emails purporting to be from the NFT marketplace about a planned smart contract migration may have been a phishing attack. Original Source
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Bunny and Qubit turns to DAO following $80-million bug exploit
The development team behind Bunny Finance and Qubit has decided to disband the protocol and turn it into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).In an official medium post published on Friday, the Bunny Finance team announced that the exploit on Qubit that resulted in $80 million worth of loss has made it
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CoinDesk Fixes CMS Exploit That Leaked Headlines Before Publication
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CryptoX is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CryptoX is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies
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Latest DeFi bridge exploit results in $4.4M losses for Meter
The Meter Passport token bridge platform has incurred $4.4 million in losses due to a smart contract hack which also caused Hundred Finance to lose $3.3 million through under-collateralized loans.Meter.io’s Meter Passport (MTRG) is a token bridge that is compatible with Ethereum and its sidechains. This attack affected the Moonriver
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Jump Trading Backstops Wormhole’s $320M Exploit Loss
On Wednesday night, the Wormhole bridge suffered an exploit to its Solana-Ethereum bridge, with an attacker fraudulently minting 120,000 ether (ETH) worth over $320 million. The attacker moved the majority of the funds to the Ethereum main chain, while keeping 40,000 wrapped ETH on Solana and trading portions of that
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Jump Crypto Replaces $320 Million in Ethereum Taken From Wormhole Exploit – Bitcoin News
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Cryptox.trade News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than
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Calling a Hack an Exploit Minimizes Human Error
Yesterday, beginning at 18:24 UTC, someone or something exploited a security vulnerability on Wormhole, a tool that allows users to swap assets between Ethereum and a number of blockchains, resulting in the loss of 120,000 wrapped ether (or wETH, worth about $321 million) on the platform.This is the second largest
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Jump Trading Backstops Wormhole’s $320M Exploit Loss: Sources
On Wednesday night, the Wormhole bridge suffered an exploit to its Solana-Ethereum bridge, with an attacker fraudulently minting 120,000 ether (ETH) worth over $320 million. The attacker moved the majority of the funds to the Ethereum main chain, while keeping 40,000 wrapped ETH on Solana and trading portions of that
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Solana’s SOL Tumbles 10% After $326M Wormhole Exploit
DeFi applications use smart contracts to provide financial services, such as trading, lending, and borrowing, to users. Concerns loomed among traders and developers after the exploit. "If nobody backs it and the coins are truly gone then Wormhole ETH is worth 0," George Harrap, founder of Solana DeFi platform Step
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Blockchain Bridge Wormhole Suffers Possible Exploit Worth Over $326M
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