In brief
Thousands of Solana software wallets have had tokens drained since last night in a widespread attack totalling nearly $4.5 million thus far.
The exploit is believed to be due to software in certain wallets, including Slope and Phantom. Hardware wallets are not affected.
Engineers from across several ecosystems, in conjunction with audit and security firms, continue to investigate the root cause of an incident that resulted in approximately 8,000 wallets being drained. 1/2
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) August 3, 2022
Seems like an iOS supply chain attack. Multiple plausible wallets that only received sol and had no interactions beyond receiving have been affected. https://t.co/ne0g3ZmLH5
As well as key that were imported into iOS, and generated externally.https://t.co/hStAr1mU6Q
— SMS T◎ly, (@aeyakovenko) August 3, 2022
lmao you can’t make this up – some madlad started DOSing the hacker which caused the RPC nodes to start failing
FYI – the chain is fine pic.twitter.com/AzbEvFLft4
— mert | Helius (@0xMert_) August 3, 2022
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Source: https://decrypt.co/106649/solana-wallet-hack-what-we-know-so-far