Hackers Allegedly Stole $1.65m Worth of Elrond, Dumped it, Causing a 92% Drop in EGLD’s Price on the Maiar DEX

Key takeaways:

• There was an alleged security breach in Elrond whereby hackers stole $1.65 million in EGLD.
• The hackers then dumped the Elrond (EGLD) on the Maiar DEX, resulting in a 92% drop in the digital asset on the decentralized exchange.
• The price of Elrond (EGLD) was not affected on centralized exchanges.

Hackers have allegedly stolen $1.65 million worth of ELGD through a security breach on the Elrond Network.

According to the team at WuBlockchain, the attackers obtained the funds ‘for free’. They then proceeded to sell the Elrond on the Maiar Decentralized Exchange, thus causing a 92% price drop in the digital asset on the platform. The team at WuBlockchain

shared their conclusion on the security breach at Elrond through the following tweet.

How Elrond (EGLD) Crashed on the Maiar Decentralized Exchange.

The incident at Elrond (EGLD) was further broken down by crypto Twitter community member @Foundres_, who began by identifying three wallets responsible for the crash.

According to his analysis, the three accounts sold a massive amount of Elrond (EGLD) and were created at the same time before the attack. The addresses then received some funds from Binance and deployed a questionable smart contract on the Elrond Network. The smart contract then enabled the three addresses to withdraw over 1,650,000 EGLD (worth roughly $108.8 million using an EGLD rate of $68).

@Foundres_ initially pointed out that the exact origin of the funds could not be found, but the three wallets distributed the ELGD loot in three batches of 800k, 400k, and 450k EGLD. The three wallets then proceeded to sell the Elrond on Maiar exchange, crashing its price, before the team at Elrond halted the decentralized exchange. He added:

On the 1,650 millions EGLD, they sold 951 of them and succeed to bridge 5,6 millions of USDC before the maintenance. 88k of EGLD was send on this account too :

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this account sended 38k to Binance but 50k still here

In his conclusion, he explained that of the 1.65 million Elrond (EGLD), 5.6 million USDC and 38k EGLD had been successfully laundered. Ten million USDC

, 170k UTK, and 180k EGLD were still in four wallets. However, the attackers have attempted to hide their tracks by transferring the latter funds to different wallets.

Additionally, @Foundres_ provides a probable origin of the funds by explaining that the hackers used a loophole using ‘on the liquidity of the wEGLD <> EGLD smart contract.’