Hackers stole more than $320 million in cryptocurrency from DeFi platform Wormhole

A hacker stole $320 million worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency from a decentralized finance platform Wormhole on Wednesday. The attack is the largest against the cryptocurrency industry so far in 2022 and one of the top hacks of the industry to date. As of Thursday morning, all of the stolen funds were “restored,” the trading platform was back up, and an incident report was coming soon, according to tweets by the company. The vulnerability used by the attacker had been fixed, …

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