The developer behind the Solana blockchain says the Slope wallet could be the cause of the ongoing attacks. As a result, millions of dollars’ worth of crypto tokens were stolen from more than 9,000 hot wallets.
On the second day of the attack As a result, at least $6 million tokens were stolen from users of Slope-linked Phantom and Slope wallets, blaming the wallet’s software for compromise.
“This does not appear to be a flaw in Solana’s core code, but rather caused by software used by several wallets that are popular among network users,” Solana Networks said in a statement.Tweet
The stolen money was all from Hot Wallet, which is a wallet in which a different key is stored from a hardware device.declarationDeveloper Slope says a group of wallets have been compromised. But it did not confirm whether private key storage practices might be relevant, with a Slope representative simply saying, “We do not store any personal data on centralized servers.”
On the part of Phantom Wallet developers said they had “The reason to believe that The vulnerability report is due to the complications involved in importing accounts into and out of Slope.”
Another developer on Twitter said theybelieveThat Slope stores private keys in plain text on a central server. which is easily attacked by attackers
“So far it seems that Phantom users are also using Slope, and it seems likely this is a Slope-specific bug,” Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said in a statement.Tweet
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