For Angel Di Matteo @shadowargel
The team of wormhole He proposed to the person responsible to return the funds and offer him a reward of USD $10 million. It is unknown if the hacker accepted the deal.
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wormhole, the protocol that allows users to move their tokens and NFT between the networks Solarium Y ethereum, was the victim of an exploit that led to the theft of at least USD $323 million.
robbery to wormhole via exploit
The security breach even led to the suspension of the service. This was reported by the team wormhole through your account Twitter, where he indicated that they were reviewing to verify the existence of the exploit in question, apologizing to users for the inconvenience caused.
‼️ The wormhole network is down for maintenance as we look into a potential exploit.
???? We will provide updates here as soon as we have them.
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— Wormhole???? (@wormholecrypto) February 2, 2022
Subsequently, the team wormhole confirmed the suspicions and revealed that some 120,000 were illegally mined through the exploit. wETH, whose estimated value is about USD $323 million.
The wormhole network was exploited for 120k wETH.
ETH will be added over the next hours to ensure wETH is backed 1:1. More details to come shortly.
We are working to get the network back up quickly. Thanks for your patience.
— Wormhole???? (@wormholecrypto) February 2, 2022
The interesting thing about the matter is that a researcher revealed the existence of the exploit, to which the team of wormhole left you a message on a block through the network ethereum, where it reads:
“We realized that an exploit can be exploited in Solana VAA verification and mint tokens. We would like to offer you a Whitehat-style deal and offer you a $10 million reward for discovering this, in exchange for you returning the stolen wETH.”
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