EigenLayer Hack Leads to Unauthorized Sale of 1.6M EIGEN Tokens, No Impact on Protocol

EigenLayer Hack: The Platform Reassures Users of Security

Following an incident in which an investor’s tokens valued at nearly $6 million were stolen, EigenLayer assured the community that their protocol was secure. The EigenLayer team announced on October 4 that it was looking into unapproved sales activity with a wallet with the last digits f10D. The wallet address sold roughly 1.6 million EIGEN tokens from EigenLayer, for a total estimated value of $5.7 million. Soon after EigenLayer’s disclosure, Etherscan tagged the address as under investigation.

EigenLayer Confirms Hack Behind $5.7M Token Theft, Assures No Protocol Vulnerabilities

EigenLayer announced in a community update on October 5 that the unapproved token-selling problem was caused by a hack. The email thread concerning the transfer of an investor’s token into custody was hacked, according to the EigenLayer team. The attacker received the 1.6 million tokens that belonged to the investor as a result of the hack.

The attacker sold these stolen EIGEN tokens via a decentralized swap platform and transferred stablecoins to centralized exchanges.

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The EigenLayer team reassured the community that the issue was isolated and had no impact on its wider ecosystem, despite the fact that the tokens had been stolen through a hack. The group stated that there was no connection between the hack and any on-chain features. According to EigenLayer, neither the protocol nor the token contracts have any known vulnerabilities. In the community update, EigenLayer also promised to keep looking into the matter and to provide an update as soon as further details become available.

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