{"id":21485,"date":"2025-02-25T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-authorities-seize-31-million-in-crypto-linked-to-uranium-finance-hack\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:45:08","slug":"us-authorities-seize-31-million-in-crypto-linked-to-uranium-finance-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-authorities-seize-31-million-in-crypto-linked-to-uranium-finance-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"US Authorities Seize $31 Million in Crypto Linked to Uranium Finance Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern District of New York&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office has seized cryptocurrencies worth approximately $31 million. These assets are connected to the April 2021 hack of Uranium Finance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SDNY and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HSISanDiego?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HSISanDiego<\/a> seize cryptocurrency worth approximately $31 million related to April 2021 hack of Uranium Finance. If you believe you have been a victim of this hack, please contact UraniumVictims@hsi.dhs.gov.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SDNYnews\/status\/1894115083917185039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The operation also involved officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The Binance Smart Chain-based automated market maker protocol was attacked during its migration to a new version. Due to a vulnerability, the perpetrator was able to exchange one token for 98% of the liquidity pool&#8217;s balance.<\/p>\n<p>The damage from the incident was estimated at approximately $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>The last <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UraniumFinance\/status\/1387876821799211010\">post<\/a> from the Uranium Finance team on X was dated April 30, 2021. In the message, the developers urged users to withdraw all assets from the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement has urged victims of the hack to contact them, likely regarding compensation from the seized funds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFour years, there are my $2000,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kriswu75714819\/status\/1894183266418397495\">wrote<\/a> one user.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During this time, the hacker repeatedly used the Tornado Cash mixer to launder the stolen cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Bybit exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bybit-exchange-suffers-1-46-billion-loss-in-hack\">lost $1.46 billion<\/a> in a hack. The incident became the largest in the industry by the amount lost.<\/p>\n<p>Experts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/arkham-says-lazarus-group-behind-bybit-hack\">linked<\/a> the attack to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern District of New York&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office has seized cryptocurrencies worth approximately $31 million. These assets are connected to the April 2021 hack of Uranium Finance. SDNY and @HSISanDiego seize cryptocurrency worth approximately $31 million related to April 2021 hack of Uranium Finance. If you believe you have been a victim of this hack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21484,"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":[1153,1154,44,26],"class_list":["post-21485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-confiscation","tag-crimes","tag-cybercrime","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21485","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=21485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}