February 2, 2022 - Wormhole $325 million decentralized finance (DeFi) platform theft

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The attack seems to have resulted from a recent update to the project’s GitHub repository, which revealed a fix to a bug that had not yet been deployed to the project itself.

The attack took place on February 2nd and was noticed when a post from the Wormhole Twitter account announced that the network was being taken “down for maintenance” while a potential exploit was investigated. A later post from Wormhole confirmed the hack and the amount stolen.

120,000 Ethereum (ETH) worth around $325 million were stolen