Defi Protocol Harvest Finance Hacked for $24 Million, Attacker Returns $2.5 Million
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Defi Protocol Harvest Finance Hacked for $24 Million, Attacker Returns $2.5 Million

THELOGICALINDIAN - Decentralized accounts defi agreement Harvest Accounts was afraid on Monday for 24 actor The antagonist targeted the protocols clamminess pools assuming an arbitrage advance application a ample beam accommodation a blazon of uncollatarized accommodation but after alternate 25 actor In seven account the drudge was complete

Harvest Finance revealed that the hacker “manipulated prices on one money lego (curve y pool) to cesspool addition money lego [farm USDT (fUSDT), acreage USDC (fUSDC)], abounding times. The antagonist again adapted the funds to renBTC and exited to bitcoin.”

RenBTC is a bitcoin-backed badge acclimated on the Ethereum blockchain.

Farm, Harvest’s built-in token, fell 54% to $101.79 on the news, according to Coingecko data. Following the attack, the bulk of money bound in the agreement additionally crashed to $575 actor from $1 billion on Oct. 25, as captious investors pulled their deposits.

Harvest provided a account of 10 bitcoin addresses of the hacker, area it believes the baseborn funds may accept been moved. It additionally asked exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, and Huobi to block the attacker’s addresses.

The three-month-old belvedere said that there is a “significant bulk of alone identifiable advice on the attacker, who is acclaimed in the crypto community.” Not accommodating to dox the cyber-thief, Harvest Finance is now alms a $100,000 compensation “for the aboriginal being or aggregation to ability out to the attacker”.

The $2.5 actor alternate by the hacker will be “distributed to the afflicted depositors pro-rata application a snapshot,” Harvest tweeted.

Harvest’s drudge comes aloof six weeks afterwards an antagonist made off with $8.1 actor in bitcoin from addition defi protocol, Bzx. However, Bzx managed to balance the funds.

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