Mysterious dForce hacker returns stolen cryptocurrencies

The hacker who stole more than $ 25 million in cryptocurrencies at dForce finally returned almost the all funds to protocol Challenge.

Attacks over the past weekend have targeted the Uniswap exchange and the DeFi Lendf.me platform, which is part of the dForce protocol. The hacker had managed to steal for over 25 million dollars to the two crypto companies.

According to Coindesk, the latter has returned almost all stolen cryptocurrencies. Yesterday, several transactions, including 57 992 Ethereum, were indeed made to the dForce portfolio for a total amount of approximately $ 24 million.

The pirate however, did not return the exact same combination of cryptocurrencies. Transactions in USDT, BUSD or PAX stablecoins have also been recorded.

On Twitter, the founder of dForce, Mindao Yang, indicated that he would soon set up a asset redistribution process for the victims.

It is with great relief that I report that almost all of the stolen funds have been recovered through the concerted efforts of our partners, law enforcement, investors, the community and our team members. We are in the middle of the process, so unfortunately I cannot share more details at this time; however, I will absolutely do so in a future article, ” did he explain yesterday.

The hacker would have exploited the bugs and functionalities of several blockchain technologies in order to drive a attack Of type " reentrancy " This technique exploits a flaw in the system to target smart contracts and thus illegally drain funds.

At this point, it is still not clear why the assets were returned and even less why via tokens different from those stolen.