{"id":21089,"date":"2025-02-12T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/compromised-zklend-protocol-offers-hacker-960000-reward\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:06:22","slug":"compromised-zklend-protocol-offers-hacker-960000-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/compromised-zklend-protocol-offers-hacker-960000-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Compromised zkLend Protocol Offers Hacker $960,000 Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12, the L2 protocol zkLend, based on Starknet, suffered a loss of approximately 3666 ETH (valued at $9.6 million at the time of writing) due to a hack. The withdrawal function has been suspended.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To the hacker:<\/p>\n<p>We understand that you are responsible for today\u2019s attack on zkLend. You may keep 10% of the funds as a whitehat bounty, and send back the remaining 90%, or 3,300 ETH to be exact, to this Ethereum address: 0xCf31e1b97790afD681723fA1398c5eAd9f69B98C.<\/p>\n<p>Upon\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/piEVPDHZd4\">pic.twitter.com\/piEVPDHZd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 zkLend (@zkLend) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zkLend\/status\/1889515118368829559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The zkLend team <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/tx\/0xe04a7954d440906344f3f5b4c65b358625af2d393bc88942d6f46636e4080067\">offered<\/a> the hacker the opportunity to voluntarily return 90% of the stolen amount (3300 ETH) to the specified address, allowing them to keep 10% (~$960,000) as a reward. The developers have promised to cease pursuing the perpetrator if the conditions are met by February 14, 00:00 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, zkLend will forward the information to security firms and law enforcement agencies to track and apprehend the hacker.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November 2024, a hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-returns-25-5-million-to-thala-in-exchange-for-300000-reward\">returned<\/a> $25.5 million stolen from the DeFi project Thala for a reward of $300,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12, the L2 protocol zkLend, based on Starknet, suffered a loss of approximately 3666 ETH (valued at $9.6 million at the time of writing) due to a hack. The withdrawal function has been suspended. To the hacker: We understand that you are responsible for today\u2019s attack on zkLend. You may keep 10% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21088,"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":[44,1179,1424,1177],"class_list":["post-21089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-protocols","tag-starknet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089","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=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}