The attack has led to the de-pegging of the Platypus USD stablecoin, which fell to $0.48 from $1.
The $8.5 million attack on the fragmented financial industry agreement Platypus, which withdrew $8.5 million, has now identified potential sex suspects.
Blockchain security firm CertiK first reported the flash attack on the landslide-stable sharing platform in a tweet on Feb. 16, with details of the known attacker's contract.
According to CertiK, nearly $8.5 million has already been relocated. As a result, the platypus dollar was pegged to the dollar, which fell 52.2% to $0.478 at the time of writing.
The platypus later confirmed the hacking on Twitter, while a forum moderator of the platypus's Telegram group confirmed that the platypus had suspended trading.
"attackers used lightning loans to take advantage of a logic error in the USP capital adequacy check mechanism in contracts with collateral."
The platypus confirmed a loss of 8.5 million pounds from its main pool and said savings penetration was 85 per cent. Other swimming pools are unharmed. At present, the network hackers have been contacted to discuss the refund of the reward.
Tether Holdings has already frozen the stolen USDT, and the platypus has contacted Circle and Binance to freeze other stolen dynamic passwords.
A tweet from ZachXBT, the cryptographic algorithm "on the chain", emphasized that a now deleted Twitter account called @ retlqw claimed that the detailed address identified by Platypus was related to this account.
ZachXBT said: "I have tracked your account through a bug in the @ Platypusdefi system and I am in touch with the trading center of their work team. I want to return the assets for negotiation before touching the law enforcement agencies. "
The official platypus Twitter account also shared ZachXBT messages.
Lightning strikes in the same way that Avi Eisenberg used in October on suspicion of controlling the price of Mngo coins in Qingmang's sales market. Shortly after exploiting vulnerabilities in the system, Eisenberg made it clear that I firmly believe that "all our own actions are reasonable open market operations, using well-designed agreements." Eisenberg was arrested on December 28th on fraud charges.
UTC upgrade at 4:53 on February 17: added a tweet from ZachXBT about the possibility of an attacker borrowing money for Platypus flash chips.