EigenLayer: An investor's email was hijacked by hackers, who successfully replaced the address and stole over 1.6 million EIGEN

2024-10-05 10:43:29

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ChainCatcher news, EigenLayer officially stated on X that an isolated incident occurred this morning, where an investor's email regarding the transfer of belonging tokens to a custody address was hijacked by hackers. The hackers replaced the specific address in the email, resulting in 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens being incorrectly transferred to the hacker's address. The hackers have sold these stolen EIGEN tokens through decentralized trading platforms and transferred the stablecoins to centralized exchanges.

EigenLayer stated that they are in contact with these platforms and law enforcement. Some funds have already been frozen. This attack did not involve the EigenLayer protocol itself, and there were no vulnerabilities exposed in the protocol or token contracts.

Previous news, Lookonchain monitoring showed that a certain address received 1.67 million EIGEN from the Eigenlayer team wallet and completely sold them at a price of $3.3, totaling approximately $5.51 million.

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