In early August, the Solana crypto community was rocked by what looked like an unsolvable hack that drained roughly $4.5 million in SOL from several thousand users’ wallets.
An initial estimate by the team at MistTrack had identified 8,000 affected wallets with their funds being siphoned off to four addresses belonging to the alleged perpetrators. Another report by Decrypt gave a 15,200 estimate of affected Solana wallets.
In this article, we cover the following:
Details of how the exploit happened
Investigations carried out by Slope Finance and OtterSec
The possibility of Ethereum wallets also being affected
How a group of Solana white-hat hackers fought back
How an NFT leak method disclosed by the OMNIA team could have possibly identified the Solana attacker
Please read all about it in our blog article through the link below.
