On the 25th (local time), the prosecution announced through X that they had seized $31 million (approximately 4.6 billion yen) in crypto assets related to Uranium Finance.
The seizure was the result of a joint investigation between the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego, the department said in a statement.
In addition, the company has not released any specific information about the identity of the hacker.
The company is urging victims to contact them. Uranium Finance is a DeFi platform developed by forking Uniswap's automated market maker (AMM) based on the BNB Chain.
project. The platform released its first version on April 1, 2021, but was hacked on the 28th of the same month and the website was shut down.
The official account was also stopped updating after April 30, 2021, and the victims were left without compensation.
One of the project managers claimed that the hack may have been an inside job. The hackers exploited a bug in Uranium Finance's v2 smart contract to steal the project's funds.
The error allowed the hackers to steal a total of $50 million worth of assets.
The stolen assets included approximately $36.8 million in Bitcoin (BTC), 1,800 Ethereum (ETH), and 1,500 Ethereum (ETH).
Cadot (DOT) with 26,500 DOT, Tether (USDT) with 5.7 million USDT, Karudano (ADA) with 638,000 ADA, and Uranium Finance's own token
The hackers also converted the seized Polkadot and Karuda tokens into Ethereum, which they then used to buy Tornado Cash.
Uranium Finance also announced on April 8, 2021 that the liquidity pool of its v1 platform had been hacked.
After this incident, the second version (v2) was released on April 16, 2021, but only 1.3 million BNB and BUSD were stolen.
Two days later, it was hacked again and was forced to shut down.
2025/02/26 10:41 KST
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