UXLINK hacker’s wild ride: Up just 0.2% on $36M loot
The hacker has clawed back $4.8M of losses, six months after draining UXLINK’s multi-sig and minting a billion tokens.
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The hacker has clawed back $4.8M of losses, six months after draining UXLINK’s multi-sig and minting a billion tokens.
The hacker who attacked DeFi lending platform Venus Protocol lost almost $5M on-chain, following nine months of preparation.
The Compound incident is the latest in a string of website hijackings that have also affected Maple Finance, OpenEden and Curvance.
Ploutos Money used the BTC/USD price for USDC, leading to $400K of ETH being lent against just $8 of collateral.
The attack on a lending pool belonging to YieldBlox pushed the price of USTRY to over $100 before using it to borrow XLM and USDC worth $10M.
After last week's news that leftover funds from The DAO would go to Ethereum security, a further 50 ETH has been rescued.
Of a total of $17 million stolen from victim addresses, $3 million in USDC is yet to be frozen by issuer Circle.
The root cause behind the hack remains unclear. Around $6M in ETH and $850K of YieldFi assets sit in the hacker’s ETH address.
A flash loan attack allowed a hacker to manipulate the DUSD pool on Curve Finance. Another, smaller hack hit SynapLogic four hours earlier.
An ongoing hacking spree targeting legacy DeFi projects has claimed a further $27M, with Truebit and Futureswap the latest victims.