4 entries tagged “recovered”.
A Web3 game on the Blast network drained of about $62.5M in March 2024 by one of its own developers — an insider whom investigators (ZachXBT) linked to North Korea. After negotiations, the developer returned all of the funds without a ransom.
A BNB Chain stableswap protocol that rug-pulled ~$27M in June 2021 by deploying a linked library different from its verified source code, letting operators drain the protocol and approved user wallets. A white-hat traced the team to Manchester, UK; arrests followed and most funds were returned.
The Ethereum lending protocol Euler Finance lost about $197M in a March 2023 flash-loan attack exploiting a flawed 'donate' function. After weeks of on-chain negotiation, the attacker returned essentially all of the recoverable funds.
A cross-chain protocol exploited for about $611M in August 2021 — one of the largest DeFi thefts ever. Unusually, the attacker (dubbed 'Mr. White Hat') returned nearly all of the funds over the following days.
