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🚨🚨🚨There seems to be a widespread SOL exploit at play that's draining wallets throughout the ecosystem
Here's what you can do right now to best protect yourself
We are working closely with other teams to get to the bottom of a reported vulnerability in the Solana ecosystem. At this time, the team does not believe this is a Phantom-specific issue.
As soon as we gather more information, we will issue an update.
There's an ongoing attack targeting the Solana ecosystem right now. 7000+ wallets affected, and rising at 20/min. Because it's very early and the attack is ongoing, there's a lot of misinformation and speculation. So here are a few thoughts and clarifications.
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Seeing a lot of speculation on the hack still. After helping coordinate a SOL Security room for the last 12+ hours and speaking to multiple wallet peoviders, here are some things for the public to keep in mind. Core to everything: we do not have a clear explanation yet. Now, a 🧵
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Not your keys not your coins 🤯...
oh wait a minute 🤣🤣🤣🤡
Exactly
🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Kudos to correct use of emoji in title 👍
What could be said at this point? Absolute dumpster fire.
What a disaster. You cannot safely hold that even with your own keys. And probably people will still use it. So much harm due to ignorance.
NOlana ;)
Just press this button to confirm that you permit an updatable smart contract to perform any operations with all your assets: [🤡]
(not only on Solana, by the way)
Lol this is the type of news I love waking up to a shitcoin self inflicted L is the best shitcoiner tears around
It seems that about 5Mto10M has been stolen. To put in this into context, NOMAD bridge was hacked the other day and $150M was gone.
source
Solana exchange rate is down 2% today at the time of writing
NOMAD bridge?
Oh, they mad alright...
The cope in the failing Discord servers must be unreal tonight 🤣🤡
Solana is an absolute disaster that operates on something called "mainnet beta" Imagine putting your money into shitty beta software.
Da fuck? How can a blockchain be in beta but widely available for absolutely anyone to put money into?
right? it's absolutely wild that exchanges list something that calls itself beta. shitcoin casino's do not care about their customers.
https://twitter.com/phantom/status/1554626111535026177 https://nitter.it/phantom/status/1554626111535026177 <-- Shows the thread in a single, easy-to-read, web page
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1554628443878350851 https://nitter.it/adamscochran/status/1554628443878350851 <-- Shows the thread in a single, easy-to-read, web page
https://twitter.com/CyanOnChain/status/1554641593927286784 https://nitter.it/CyanOnChain/status/1554641593927286784
https://twitter.com/osec_io/status/1554638382898495488 https://nitter.it/osec_io/status/1554638382898495488
https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1554656344036126720 https://nitter.it/el33th4xor/status/1554656344036126720
https://twitter.com/MistTrack_io/status/1554656463603531776 https://nitter.it/MistTrack_io/status/1554656463603531776
This Tweet kicks off a thread where he tries to narrow it down to two reasons:
https://twitter.com/nvcoelho/status/1554737291838590976 https://nitter.it/nvcoelho/status/1554737291838590976
This Tweet kicks off a thread with a summary so-far:
https://twitter.com/HelpedHope/status/1554812859737165824 https://nitter.net/HelpedHope/status/1554812859737165824