Solana Suffers Exploit — Close to 8,000 SOL-Based Wallets Have Been Compromised

Solana Suffers Exploit — Close to 8,000 SOL-Based Wallets Have Been Compromised

The Solana smart contract project is suffering from issues once again after it was discovered that close to 8,000 Solana-based wallets have been compromised. Solana is asking victimized wallet owners to complete a survey and the team stressed that “engineers are investigating the root cause.” Solana Investigates Massive Wallet Exploit, Root Cause of the Hack Is Still Unknown

After the chain had halted on a few occasions in the past, Solana users are now dealing with an extensive wallet vulnerability that affected specific wallet software such as Phantom and Slope. Solana developers and victims discovered the exploit on Tuesday evening (EST) and the hacker’s method of attack is currently unknown.

The blockchain security firm Peckshield notedthat it’s possible the exploit stemmed from a supply chain attack. Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko also stated that the exploit likely derived from a supply chain attack.

“Seems like an iOS supply chain attack. Multiple plausible wallets that only received sol and had no interactions beyond receiving have been affected,” Yakovenko wrote. “Android seems to be affected as well. All the confirmed stories so far have had the key imported or generated on mobile. Most of the reports are Slope, but a few Phantom users as well,” the Solana Labs CEO added. Solana is suffering an exploit, which has drained millions from multiple wallets.

Cause of SOL exploit is still unknown. pic.twitter.com/uvoUO8yNlO

— Hector Lopez (@hlopez_) August 3, 2022

Presently, the amount of stolen funds from the hack is also unknown, as the security firm Anchain estimated the hack to be around $5 million, and Peckshield’s estimate was around $8 million. The Solana StatusTwitter account explained what the Solana team had discovered so far.

“Engineers from multiple ecosystems, with the help of several security firms, are investigating drained wallets on Solana. There is no evidence hardware wallets are impacted,” the team said.

The Solana team also left a survey for victims that asks a number of specific questions like what address was affected by the exploit and what type of wallet the user leveraged. Victims need to detail exactly when they downloaded the wallet and if the wallet was an iOS version, Android version, or Windows, Mac, or browser version. Question 5 on Solana’s exploit survey.

One question asks victims if they generated a seed phrase from within the compromised wallet and the survey wants to know where and when the seed phrase was created. The seed phrase question is “required,” according to the Solana hack survey hosted on the Solana Foundation’s website.

Solana’s recent wallet exploit follows the blockchain’s issues with block production in September 2021and June 2022. Between those two dates, Solana’s network had to stop block production a total of eight times.

The exploit this week has damaged solana’s (SOL) market gains and out of the top ten crypto assets, SOL is the only token down in value against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday. SOL is now in the ninth position as well, when it used to be a top-five contender in the crypto economy a few months ago.

“It is not yet clear at this time whether the attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Phantom wallet or some other hidden weakness in the broader Solana ecosystem,” Mikkel Mørch, the executive director at the digital asset investment fund ARK36 told Bitcoin.com News on Wednesday. “But the hack will definitely cast a shadow over Solana’s credibility as a better alternative to Ethereum – especially when it comes to security. It may even give Ethereum some additional boost from the narrative perspective as the safest and most reliable defi ecosystem,” Mørch added. Tags in this story Anatoly Yakovenko, Anchain, audits, Block Issues, Block Production, cryptos, Hector Lopez, Peckshield, Phantom Wallets, PoS, Proof-of-Stake, September Outage, SOL, SOL Issues, SOL price, Solana, Solana Apps, Solana blockchain, Solana consensus, solana labs, Solana Mainnet, Solana Outage, Solana Status, Solana Uptime, Solana validators, uptime

What do you think about the recent Solana exploit and how it affected close to 8,000 SOL-based wallets? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,700 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today. The Number of Euro-Pegged Stablecoins Has Swelled 1,683% Since 2020 ALTCOINS | 2 days ago While the Bear Market"s Claws Drag ETH Prices Down, Ethereum Network Fees Remain Low ALTCOINS | 3 days ago

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