While you were enjoying your sushi and yam, another DeFi project lost their almost entire liquidity pool, Ethereum oracle node operators got attacked, and Shapeshift caught their employee stealing bitcoin.
Hacks
On September 3, 2020 SYFI token rebase mechanism was exploited to which allowed an attacker to empty token’s liquidity on Uniswap worth 740 ETH.
On August 30, 2020 multiple Chainlink node operators have experienced a spam attack which resulted in 700 ETH being drained due to inflated gas fees. The attacked allowed a malicious party to mint and sell Chi tokens at a higher price point earning a profit.
On August 21, 2020 Shapeshift detected a theft of ~90 BTC. According to the civil complaint filed by Shapeshift, a recently hired engineer installed a malicious program which siphoned corporate funds to his personal account for almost 7 months. Shapeshift has previously experienced multiple insider threat incidents in 2016. According to the Forensic Report and a blog post, those inci…
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