EigenLayer: An investor's email was hijacked by hackers and 1.67 million EIGEN were stolen

BlockBeats reported that on October 5, EigenLayer officials posted on social media that a hacker attack against a single investor had occurred earlier. The hacker successfully hijacked the investor's email communication regarding the transfer of the attributed tokens and replaced the receiving address.

It is reported that the attack caused 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens to be mistakenly transferred to an address controlled by the hacker. The hacker then sold the stolen tokens through a decentralized trading platform and transferred the resulting stablecoins to a centralized exchange.

EigenLayer said it is working with relevant trading platforms and law enforcement agencies, and some funds have been successfully frozen. Officials emphasized that the attack was an isolated incident against a single investor and did not affect the EigenLayer protocol itself, and there were no vulnerabilities in the protocol and token contracts.