Wintermute Founder: 10% Bounty If Hackers Return $160M in Assets

Sept 21,2022
KingData News: Evgeny Gaevoy, founder of cryptomarket maker Wintermute, tweeted that the attack was in relation to our wallet used for DeFi proprietary trading operations, which are completely separate and independent from our CeFi and OTC operations. The attack was likely linked to the Profanity-type exploit of our DeFi trading wallet. We did use Profanity and an internal tool to generate addresses with many zeroes in front. Last time we generated addresses this way was in June. We have since moved to a more secure key generation script. As we learned about the Profanity exploit last week, we accelerated the “old key” retirement. And then, due to an internal (human) error, a wrong function has been called and we blacklisted the router instead of the operator (contract that signs). To the hacker, we offer a 10% bounty on funds taken. To make it easy, we propose for you to transfer all of the funds taken through the exploit, save for $16M USDC, to: 0x4f3a120E72C76c22ae802D129F599BFDbc31cb81.
This metrics provides a follow-up of hack incidents such as the exploitation of the Harmony-eco cross-chain bridge Horizon and the NFT lending protocol XCarnival.
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