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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Marvie Basilan

DeFi Platform WOOFi Offers 10% Bounty After $8.75M Crypto Exploit

WOOFi is just one of the crypto firms that have been exploited for millions as threat actors find new ways to access systems. (Credit: Richard Patterson/flickr.com)

KEY POINTS

  • WOOFi said the exploiter took advantage of a vulnerability that caused a price calculation error
  • The exploiter attacked the system using the same flaw three times, as per WOOFi
  • The platform offered the hacker 10% of the pilfered funds and placed a bounty on Arkham Intelligence

Decentralized finance platform WOOFi on Wednesday announced that millions in cryptocurrencies were lost to an exploit that targeted its swap service on the layer-2 Arbitrum network. The platform has since offered a 10% bounty in exchange for the funds.

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