{"id":67407,"date":"2022-09-20T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67407"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:28:21","slug":"hackers-stole-160-million-from-wintermute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-stole-160-million-from-wintermute\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers stole $160 million from Wintermute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The market-maker Wintermute has lost assets worth $160 million in a hacker attack.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">We\u2019ve been hacked for about $160M in our defi operations. Cefi and OTC operations are not affected<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wishful cynic (@EvgenyGaevoy) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvgenyGaevoy\/status\/1572134273875951617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The platform&#8217;s CEO Evgeny Gaevoy emphasised that the attack targeted DeFi operations. According to him, <span data-descr=\\\"over-the-counter operations\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">OTC<\/span>\u2014 and <span data-descr=\\\"centralized trading platform\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">CEX<\/span>-modules are operating as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Gaevoy added that Wintermute remains solvent \u2014 its reserves are twice the amount stolen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cToday, and perhaps in the coming days, our services will operate with disruptions, after which everything will fall into place,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In total, according to Gaevoy, 90 different assets were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wintermute <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/wintermute-gains-the-right-to-issue-usdd-stablecoin\">obtained the right to issue<\/a> the USDD stablecoin of the TRON DAO Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-stole-about-3-3-million-through-vulnerability-in-profanity-ethereum-address-generator\">stole about $3.3 million<\/a> from Ethereum users who generated addresses through the Profanity tool.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market-maker Wintermute has lost assets worth $160 million in a hacker attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67408,"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":[1154,1149],"class_list":["post-67407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-wintermute"],"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\/67407","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=67407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67409,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67407\/revisions\/67409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}