Wormhole cryptocurrency platform hacked for $325 million after GitHub error

On Wednesday, the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Wormhole became the victim of the largest cryptocurrency theft this year — and among the top five largest crypto hacks of all time — when an attacker exploited a security flaw to make off with close to $325 million.

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 …

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