2 years ago
Blockchain infrastructure institution Meter has had $4.4 cardinal stolen successful a hack.
The hackers exploited a diagnostic connected Meter that automatically wraps and unwraps state tokens similar ETH and BNB for idiosyncratic convenience.
"However the declaration did not artifact nonstop enactment of the wrapped ERC20 tokens for the autochthonal state token and did not decently transportation and verify the close fig of WETH transferred from the callers' address," Meter tweeted.
Meter added that it is moving connected compensating each users affected.
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