{"id":20660,"date":"2025-01-27T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sui-holder-loses-29-million-in-hacker-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:26:12","slug":"sui-holder-loses-29-million-in-hacker-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sui-holder-loses-29-million-in-hacker-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sui Holder Loses $29 Million in Hacker Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals breached an address on the Sui blockchain, stealing 6.27 million coins valued at $29 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/205\">reported<\/a> on-chain analyst ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the incident occurred on December 12, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/suivision.xyz\/account\/0x731c2cd8f060428e7bb520899c855b48bf4b22d981f07a69ce3d0a258f3e589a\">hacker<\/a> moved the funds in three transactions, exchanged them for Ethereum via cross-chain bridges, and then sent them in parts to Tornado Cash.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXei82m6pBNcX5GcQLbYmnvWYwGRCvs9bNSMw6EnlecMAWwO94JUdCsaEH5LDtKm1IFgZAAeb5kFQhf7tthwnvny7MQyJC4POrbo6ObN8JFRgFLXGjt0iDQlVT3Q30cJsIwU6kFJSA?key=ZwZyeEd5FSa_JevqIyLszzpv\" alt=\"Sui Holder Loses $29 Million in Hacker Attack\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: TRM Labs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soon after the theft, the victim transferred their .sui domains to a new uncompromised address.<\/p>\n<p>ZachXBT added that current limitations of Sui block explorers and blockchain analytics tools make tracking the stolen funds difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the mainnet launch in May 2023, auditors CertiK discovered a critical vulnerability in the Sui blockchain. The HamsterWheel bug potentially allowed a malicious actor to seize nodes and conduct operations without processing new transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Sui developers fixed the bug and paid $500,000 as a reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals breached an address on the Sui blockchain, stealing 6.27 million coins valued at $29 million, reported on-chain analyst ZachXBT. According to him, the incident occurred on December 12, 2024. The hacker moved the funds in three transactions, exchanged them for Ethereum via cross-chain bridges, and then sent them in parts to Tornado Cash. Data: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1651],"class_list":["post-20660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-sui-sui"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"82","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}