{"id":23520,"date":"2025-04-24T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:16:50","slug":"zksync-hacker-returns-5m-in-stolen-tokens-after-accepting-10-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23520","title":{"rendered":"ZKSync Hacker Returns $5M in Stolen Tokens After Accepting 10% Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ZKsync said $5 million worth of tokens stolen during an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/04\/15\/zksync-admin-wallet-compromised-usd5m-stolen\"> admin wallet hack <\/a>last week have been returned and the case is now considered resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The layer-2 blockchain protocol saw a hacker compromise its admin wallet, leading to the theft of unclaimed tokens from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2024\/06\/17\/zksync-airdrop-of-zk-token-puts-initial-market-cap-near-900m\">ZKsync airdrop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the project said the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheZKNation\/status\/1915110305790660939?t=-b7MwnyghV5NHxvkBU2DVQ&amp;s=19\">cooperated with the team<\/a> and returned the funds within the \u201csafe harbor\u201d deadline \u2014 a grace period commonly offered in security incidents to incentivize returns without legal consequence. The cooperation means the hacker took a 10% bounty.<\/p>\n<p>The tokens are now in custody of the ZKsync Security Council and a governance process will determine what to do with them. A final investigation report is being prepared and will be published when complete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZKsync said $5 million worth of tokens stolen during an admin wallet hack last week have been returned and the case is now considered resolved. The layer-2 blockchain protocol saw a hacker compromise its admin wallet, leading to the theft of unclaimed tokens from the ZKsync airdrop. In a post on X, the project said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}