- Blockchain platform Fantom Foundation suffered a major wallet exploit.
- The firm claims all foundation funds are secure.
- Fantom Foundation is investigating the incident and tracking asset movement.
Security breaches and cyberattacks persist as looming threats in the cryptocurrency industry, casting a shadow of uncertainty and disruption on fledgling startups and established giants alike.
Joining the list of victims is the blockchain platform Fantom Foundation TG group, which recently lost a substantial quantity of funds to a third-party security exploit.
Fantom Loses Assets to Chrome Exploit
On October 17th, an admin account on the Fantom telegram channel reported that the blockchain platform had fallen victim to a zero-day security exploit on google chrome.
The exploit, which reportedly stemmed from an attack targeting one of Fantom’s employees, granted the attacker unauthorized access to some of Phantom’s hot wallets, resulting in the loss of approximately $7 million in crypto assets.
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While Fantom Foundation has reassured its users that most of its assets are securely stored in cold wallets and unaffected, the firm has yet to disclose the full extent of the exposed vulnerability.
The firm emphasized that a team is investigating the incident and tracking the movement of the lost assets.
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