Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Finance lost roughly $2 million worth of crypto assets on Feb. 20 to a hacker who “claimed everything from the genesis protocol.”
The DeFi protocol alleged that the hacker who scammed its community was a Nigerian named Ugwoke Pascal Chukwuebuka while sharing his photograph with a voter’s card.
Blockchain security firm Peckshield reported that the scammer transferred 1095 Ethereum (ETH) through Tornado Cash’s mixing protocol.
Hope Finance’s hacked contract is different from the one it audited
The smart contract exploited by the malicious player was different from the one Hope Finance audited, according to a spokesperson from its auditor Cognitos.
Cognitos said Hope Finance contracted it for a smart contract code review and security analysis.
The Cognitos spokesperson added that the Hope Finance team changed the contract multiple times, but each change was “rechecked by its engineer.”
Cognitos further added that its contact person
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