Entering day two of the shocking hack on the Solana (SOL) blockchain which raided at least 8,000 wallets and looted over $8 million, the engineers behind Solana diagnosed that the affected wallets were first created or imported on Slope mobile wallet.
Commenting on the situation, Solana’s co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko labelled the attacker as ‘lazy at driving all the paths’. Most importantly, Mr. Yakovenko didn’t beat around the bush and strongly recommended regenerating the seed phrase for any user who ‘touched’ Slope mobile wallet.
As if that wasn’t enough, some crypto analysts believe that Slope might have logged their clients’ seed phrases on a centralized server, which would explain the $6 million exploit in a period of 10 minutes. Even though the investigation is ongoing, the developers and the ecosystem teams of Solana confirmed that the staggering $8M exploit is not to be blamed on the blockchain itself.
At press time, the 9th cryptocurrency by market cap, Solana (SOL), trades at $38.92, according to CoinGecko. Slightly in the red for the past week, SOL still has yearly gains in double digits at 13.5%.
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Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
