To be more precise, 7,767k hacked wallets were reported on the morning of August 3. It is unclear whether this number has increased in the past day.

What’s going on with Solana?

As he reported Solana status page The investigation is still ongoing on Twitter, but initial results show there is no evidence that the Solana protocol or cryptography has been broken. The reason is in third-party cryptocurrency wallets. Affected addresses were created, imported or used in Slope’s mobile wallet apps, but the attack also affected the Phantom service.

While the hardware wallets used by Slope remained secure, this vulnerability was isolated to a single wallet on Solana.
– writes the company.

Thus, the fault lies not in Solana’s core code, but in the software used by several other wallet services popular with users.

It looks like the attackers somehow got hold of the password used to protect their wallets. All transactions are signed with this private key. Before Also highlighted in Solanaso users no longer reuse their first sentence in the hardware wallet – it’s worth creating a new one.

Damage amounted to 8 million dollars.