Timeline | Fantom Foundation's wallet hacked, some of the stolen funds belong to employees.

BlockBeats News, October 17th, according to CertiK monitoring, some wallets on Ethereum and Fantom belonging to the Fantom Foundation were attacked, with confirmed losses reaching $657,000. It is reported that the stolen Fantom wallets include approximately $550,000 of funds belonging to the Fantom Foundation. Below is a timeline of events related to this incident, as compiled and updated by BlockBeats:

10-17 22:39

Fantom Foundation partially hacked, losing $657,000

BlockBeats News, October 17th, according to CertiK's monitoring, the Fantom Foundation's wallets on Ethereum and Fantom were attacked, and confirmed losses have reached $657,000. The Fantom Foundation claims that the hacker caused the attack through a Chrome zero-day vulnerability. Fantom: Foundation Wallet 20 lost about $470,000 in FTM; Fantom: Foundation Wallet 18 lost at least about $187,000 in ETH.

10-17 22:47

Fantom Foundation wallet attacker may have earned up to $6.7 million

BlockBeats News, on October 17th, according to X user Spreek, the initial estimate of the total profit of the attacker's address of the Fantom Foundation wallet attack (not necessarily all from Fantom or related wallets) is about 6.7 million US dollars, of which the team member's wallet loss is about 3.4 million US dollars. BlockBeats reported today that some wallets of the Fantom Foundation were attacked, and hackers profited by exploiting a Chrome zero-day vulnerability.

10-17 22:51

AC clarification: The stolen funds on Fantom belong to employees rather than the foundation.

BlockBeats News, on October 17th, Andre Cronje, a director of the Fantom Foundation, clarified the "Fantom Foundation's partial wallet attack" incident, stating that the stolen funds on Fantom belonged to employees rather than the foundation.

10-18 08:20

Fantom Foundation confirms partial wallet was attacked and lost approximately $550,000

BlockBeats News, on October 18th, the Fantom Foundation officially confirmed that a few Fantom wallets were hacked, including about $550,000 of the Fantom Foundation's funds. Although initial reports claimed that the attack was carried out through a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, the specific attack mechanism is still under active investigation. In addition, a personal wallet of a Fantom employee was also affected. Some of the affected wallets were previously marked as "Foundation wallets" but have since been reassigned to a Fantom employee, and this incident is considered a targeted attack against individuals. Currently, the funds lost by the employee are being tracked and investigated.

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