Balancer Faces Weekend Exploit: Funds and Security at Risk
Balancer has fallen victim to an exploit during the weekend, occurring in the aftermath of the team's disclosure of a critical vulnerability that impacted a selection of its V2 pools.
Despite the team’s efforts to mitigate the risks associated with the vulnerability and their recommendation for users to withdraw their funds, Balancer could not intervene and pause the affected pools before the exploit unfolded.
Balancer has received a critical vulnerability report affecting a number of V2 Pools.
Emergency mitigation procedures have been executed to secure a majority of TVL, but some funds remain at risk.
Users are advised to withdraw affected LPs immediately.https://t.co/PDzX32gqeS pic.twitter.com/F1f649Wz3L
— Balancer (@Balancer) August 22, 2023
On Sunday, the team behind the decentralized protocol released a statement acknowledging the situation:
“About the vulnerability reported on August 22nd, an exploit has been identified. Our diligent risk reduction measures have been effective; nevertheless, the option to halt the impacted pools was not viable.”
In the wake of the initial warning issued on August 22nd, approximately 4% of the total platform funds were deemed to be at risk, as outlined in a post on the Balancer governance forum.
At present, the precise financial implications resulting from the exploit remain uncertain.
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Notably, Meir Dolev, the founder and CTO of the analytical entity Cyvers, was the first to highlight that an estimated $900,000 in funds were relocated from Balancer pools, potentially attributable to the exploit.
Furthermore, an identified address linked to the hacker received a total of $979,000 worth of DAI cryptocurrency.
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