Slope is held responsible for the hacking attack on the Solana network, which affected thousands of users and caused millions of dollars worth of damage, on the grounds of security vulnerabilities.
Solana Status made by Twitter in the statementrecent hacking attack Slope It was claimed that it was caused by a technical weakness in their wallets. Slope at the center of the accusations, Leftana layer-1 (L1) It is a Web3 wallet provider for blockchain. Stating that the details of how the hacking attack took place have not been clarified yet, and the investigations are continuing. According to the predictions of the Solana Status teamSlope allegedly stores users’ private keys on a not-so-secure local network.
Commenting on the subject on Twitter, some developers said that Slope was able to extract the private keys of users’ wallets. on a central server stated that they are stored as plain text. In addition, Solana Status indicates that the Solana protocol or cryptography is at risk from attack. there is no evidence He also added to his comments.
In the feedback made by Slope Finance on the subject, it was mentioned that the work continues to recover the stolen cryptocurrencies.
We look forward to broader community support to help us monitor, flag attacker wallets and ultimately recover funds.
The Slope team stated that their employees’ wallets were also damaged in this attack and their funds were stolen. Also, the team In order not to repeat a similar attack and to increase security, warned its users:
Create a new wallet and transfer all assets to this new wallet. In addition, we recommend that you do not use the special security words of your previous Slope wallet in the wallet you will create.
Another focal point of the attack, which made a statement on the subject and Phantom wallet developers stated that they had good reason to believe that the problem was caused by security vulnerabilities related to the Slope team’s import of user accounts. In addition, victims of the attack 60%are known to be Phantom users. While all parties blame each otherusers who lost their money continue to wait for a solution to be produced.