{"id":85857,"date":"2023-10-17T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85857"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:54:55","slug":"fantom-foundation-reports-hack-worth-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fantom-foundation-reports-hack-worth-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantom Foundation reports hack worth hundreds of thousands of dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantom Foundation representatives said the hack affected one of the organization&#8217;s wallets due to a zero-day vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fantom Foundation allegedly drained on one of their wallets via a Chrome zero day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PhBO2TtsAt\">pic.twitter.com\/PhBO2TtsAt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spreek (@spreekaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spreekaway\/status\/1714282750830928176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, losses amounted to &#8216;hundreds of thousands of dollars&#8217;. However, most of the assets were not touched, as they are stored in cold wallets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>&#8220;We are actively monitoring the movement of the lost funds,&#8221; the representatives of the organization said.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a conversation with The Block, Fantom Foundation co-founder Andre Cronje <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/257946\/fantom-foundation-employee-loses-at-least-7-million-of-crypto-in-exploit\">\u043e\u0442\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0438\u043b<\/a> that assets belonging to one of the employees were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker&#8217;s wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x0b1f29df74a19c44745862ab018d925501fe9596\">\u043a\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043a\u0435 \u0430\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0433\u043e<\/a> holds 4,500 ETH worth about $7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/multichain-suspends-operations-amid-possible-hack\">tokens worth millions of dollars were withdrawn<\/a> on the Fantom network. In particular, Beosin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/analysts-record-a-103-million-outflow-of-crypto-assets-from-multichain\">recorded<\/a> an outflow of crypto assets worth $103 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cross-chain-protocol-multichain-halts-operations\">ceased operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantom Foundation representatives said the hack affected one of the organization&#8217;s wallets due to a zero-day vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85858,"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":[1154,1462],"class_list":["post-85857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-fantom-blockchain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85857","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=85857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85859,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85857\/revisions\/85859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}