According to a recent report from BlockBeats news, EigenLayer officials shared on social media that a single investor was targeted in a hacking incident on October 5th. The hackers managed to access the investor’s email conversations about transferring vested tokens and changed the receiving address.
The attack resulted in 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens being mistakenly sent to a hacker-controlled address. The hackers then sold the tokens on decentralized exchanges and moved the resulting stablecoins to centralized exchanges.
EigenLayer is working closely with trading platforms and law enforcement agencies to address the situation, and some of the funds have been recovered. The officials stressed that this was an isolated attack on a single investor and did not impact the overall security of the EigenLayer protocol. There were no weaknesses in the protocol or token contract that were exploited.
