On Jan. 15, Ripple CTO Paolo Ardoino said that someone attempted to attack Bitfinex using a “Partial Payments Exploit.”
However, the attack failed due to the way the exchange handles a data field for the delivered amount, he added.
The clarification follows alerts that a huge $15 billion XRP transfer from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex on Jan. 14 failed to get processed.
Someone attempted to attack @bitfinex via “Partial Payments Exploit”.
Attack failed since Bitfinex properly handles ‘delivered_amount’ data field.https://t.co/EiGw9UQmmq
(updated with better gif) https://t.co/8I7vlO05ou pic.twitter.com/DxOnJLLkhU
— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) January 14, 2024
Ripple Response to Attack
A since-deleted ‘Whale Alert’ tweet claimed observing a transaction of more than 25 billion XRP. This was picked up by analyst Scott Melker, who said, “This cannot be real,” before adding, “The circulating supply of XRP is roughly 54 billion. This is almost half of that. From o
We współpracy z: https://cryptopotato.com/potential-bitfinex-15b-xrp-partial-payments-exploit-thwarted/
