{"id":49116,"date":"2021-09-08T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49116"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:01:47","slug":"cream-finance-defi-protocol-hacker-returns-17-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cream-finance-defi-protocol-hacker-returns-17-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Cream Finance DeFi protocol hacker returns $17.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker behind the Cream Finance DeFi protocol has reimbursed the majority of the funds stolen in the recent attack, amounting to 5,152.6 ETH ($17.6 million at the time of writing). This was noted by blockchain-security specialists PeckShield Inc.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FundReturn?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FundReturn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CreamdotFinance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CreamdotFinance<\/a> hacker just returned 5,152.6 ETH<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXJcIywKNg\">https:\/\/t.co\/FXJcIywKNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peckshield\/status\/1435495419652583425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The amount was sent to the project&#8217;s multisig wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Cream Finance has not yet commented on the hacker&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, the DeFi protocol Cream Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-drain-more-than-18m-from-cream-finance-defi-protocol\">was subjected to an attack<\/a> using <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-flash-loans\">a flash loan<\/a>. The damage amounted to 462,079,976 AMP and 2,804 ETH (over $18 million).<\/p>\n<p>Later, the protocol&#8217;s developers said they were prepared to reimburse the losses to those affected from earmarking 20% of the commission fees.<\/p>\n<p>The developers also announced that they would pay 10% of the stolen amount to the hacker if he returns the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker behind the Cream Finance DeFi protocol reimbursed the funds stolen in the recent attack, totaling 5,152.6 ETH ($17.6 million at the time of writing). This was noted by PeckShield Inc., a blockchain-security firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2101,1154,1093,1424],"class_list":["post-49116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cream-finance","tag-crimes","tag-defi","tag-protocols"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116","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=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49118,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions\/49118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}