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DeltaPrime paused the protocol on both Arbitrum and Avalanche, stopping the attacker from being able to steal more funds than they already had.
DeltaPrime was hacked previously on September 16, losing $6 million after a leaked private key enabled an attacker to mint a huge number of the platform's stablecoin deposit receipts.
Other crypto platforms affected included TEN Finance and Movement. Because the animations library is widely used, other non-crypto-related websites also showed the prompt.
Shortly after the theft, M2 acknowledged the hack and announced that "the situation has been fully resolved". This apparently involved M2 restoring customer funds from their own assets, rather than recovering the stolen assets.
In the process of selling off tokens, an arbitrage bot was able to take advantage of the price difference by selling the rapidly crashing SUN token into a second liquidity pool that apparently went unnoticed by the hacker, and the bot operator also profited around $560,000.
The government has not made any statements regarding the movement of assets.
The following day, $19.3 million in tokens were returned to the original wallet.
Various security researchers have observed that the attack appears to be linked to a slew of social engineering attacks perpetrated by cybercriminals out of North Korea.
This is the second Radiant Capital exploit this year, after a $4.5 million theft in January that was enabled by an unaddressed vulnerability in the underlying Compound Finance code.
The attacker stole around $1.1 million of the cartoon frog-themed PEPE tokens, and another roughly $50,000 of the also cartoon frog-themed APU token.
After the incident, some questioned why the tokens had been sent to an investor without a vesting contract, given they were supposed to be locked for a period of time to prevent sale.
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