Solana Status, the official announcement account of the Solana network, reported that in the early hours of the day, thousands of Solana wallets were emptied by hackers.
Solana Status August 3 on twitter over in his statement, 7767 Solana’s claim that his wallet was emptied confirmed. Solana Status, with attackers heavily, from 6 months for a long time not operating reported that it targeted wallets. In addition, the majority of victims Phantom and Slope wallets have been reported. The company provides users precaution their assets as to cold wallets transfers if they don’t have a cold wallet their normal wallets disconnecting from the internet. He stated that it would be an effective method until the problem is resolved. Almost all stolen assets LEFT (Left) and USDC (USD Coin) even though ETH (Ethereum) Owners are also thought to be affected.
Phantom on the topic in his statement they investigated the case, but phantom-sourced that there is a problem they don’t believe stated.
NFT market Magic Ethen if to its users any of the Phantom wallets suspicious link they give permissions advised them to cancel or, if they can, withdraw their assets to a new wallet or a cold wallet. Withdrawing assets to cold wallet recommender another company is a game company. Star Atlas it happened.
The Solana Labs spokesperson continues to investigate the case, but so far, the case has not been reported. We found that a vulnerability originating from Solana was not found.stated that the engineers continue to work and that they think that cold wallets are safe for now.
CZ Warns: Those Without Cold Wallets Transfer Their Assets To Central Exchanges
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) on Twitter in his statement He stated that he did not know the cause of the incident yet, and that he guessed that a suspicious permission given to the wallets might have caused them. While also recommending that users withdraw their assets to cold wallets, don’t have a cold wallet users their assets until the incident is resolved. Centralized exchanges like Binance to keep them suggested. In the CEO tweet:
There is an active security breach on Solana. SOL and USDC stolen from many wallets. I don’t know the main reason yet, probably because of the permissions given. Transfer your assets to cold wallets or centralized exchanges like Binance until things get better.
he expressed his thoughts.