How did hackers gain access to the private keys used to drain Solana-based wallets? It may be related to the SOL wallet provider Slope Finance. (Reporting via gazza_jenks)
Blockchain auditing firms are still trying to figure out how hackers gained access to about 8,000 private keys used to drain Solana-based wallets.steal some $5 million worth of Solana and Solana Program Library tokens
Solana has worked closely with Phantom and Slope.Finance, the two Solana-based wallet providers that had user accounts affected by the exploits. It has since emerged that some of the private keys that were compromised wereBlockchain audit and security firms Otter Security and SlowMist assisted in ongoing investigations and unpacked their findings in direct correspondence with Cointelegraph.
“The working theory is that an attacker somehow exfiltrated these logs and were able to use this to compromise the users. This is still an ongoing investigation, and current evidence does not explain all of the compromised accounts.” The SlowMist team came to a similar conclusion after being invited to analyze the exploit by Slope. The team also noted that the Sentry service of Slope Wallet collected the user’s mnemonic phrase and private key and sent it to o7e.slope.finance. Once again, SlowMist could not find any evidence explaining how the credentials were stolen.
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