Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has change into the newest sufferer of a high-value theft, with hackers stealing round $80 million in cryptocurrency on Thursday.
The worth of cryptocurrency stolen makes this the most important hack of 2022 thus far.
Qubit Finance acknowledge the hack in an incident report revealed by means of Medium. Based on the report, the hack occurred at round 5PM ET on the night of January twenty seventh.
Qubit supplies a service often called a “bridge” between totally different blockchains, successfully which means that deposits made in a single cryptocurrency could be withdrawn in one other. Qubit Finance operates a bridge between Ethereum and the Binance Sensible Chain (BSC) community.
Evaluation produced by CertiK, a blockchain auditing and safety firm, suggests the hacker was in a position to exploit a security flaw in Qubit’s good contract code that permit them ship in a deposit of 0 ETH and withdraw nearly $80 million in Binance Coin in return.
“As we transfer from an Ethereum-dominant world to a very multi-chain world, bridges will solely change into extra necessary,” CertiK analysts wrote. “Folks want to maneuver funds from one blockchain to a different, however they want to take action in methods that aren’t inclined to hackers who can steal greater than [$80 million].”
A press release posted by the Qubit Finance group on Twitter instantly appealed to the hacker, asking them to barter with the group so as to decrease losses for the Qubit neighborhood.
Qubit’s incident report additionally said that the group was making an attempt to supply the hacker the utmost reward doable below their bug bounty program. A listing for Qubit on the Immunefi bug bounty platform means that that is $250,00.
For the reason that launch of Binance Sensible Chain in 2020, a number of DeFi initiatives have suffered exploits. Probably the most extreme embrace a $31 million hack on Meerkat Finance in March 2021, a hack on Uranium Finance for $50 million in April, and an $88 million hack towards Venus Finance in Might, according to Crypto Briefing.
