- Wormhole’s token bridge was hacked on February 2, and hackers stole
Solana tokens worth $322 million. - The hackers have already spent a large part of the crypto, and converted some to USDC as well.
- The hack has been patched and Wormhole has said that its ETH supply will be replenished soon.
- The token bridge is also offering a bug bounty of $10 million to anymore who can return the funds.
Token bridges like Wormhole allow users to receive cryptocurrencies of different forms — Ether, Solana and more — without needing a centralised exchange to act as a custodian. It allows users to receive cryptocurrencies in Solana, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Polygon, Oasis,
Wormhole has offered a bug bounty of $10 million to anyone who can return the funds.
The wETH token is a separate token built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) of the Ethereum platform’s ERC20 system. And, the hack took place on the Solana side of the token bridge.
Some worry that its Terra bridge could also be vulnerable. Security experts have reverse engineered and $4 the hack on Twitter now that it has been patched. The Wormhole team has assured users that its wETH supply will be renewed soon enough.
The hack itself took place on February 2, at 6.24pm UTC. At the time of writing, the attackers had already redeemed 93,750 wETH, worth about $250 million, since then.
According to $4, the hackers have used these funds to buy SportX (SX), Meta Capital (MCAP), Finally Usable Crypto Karma, and Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) tokens.
They also swapped some of the Solana tokens they stole for USDC, suggesting that they’re looking to convert the tokens into fiat currency. Cointelegraph reported that the wallet still had over $44 million worth of Solana tokens left after these transactions.
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