A hacker hacked the Wormhole cryptocurrency project and became a multimillionaire

FeDi-platform Immunefi reported that the white hacker satya0x managed to hack a cryptocurrency project Wormhole, after which the cyber specialist received a reward and became a millionaire.

What is known

Wormhole (wormhole) is a cross-chain protocol for the transfer of tokens of different standards and technologies. In particular, to transfer assets between different blockchains. The vulnerability discovered by an ethical hacker could have blocked investors' funds.

The error was found on February 24 of this year. Project developers Wormhole promptly responded to the message of its discovery. On the same day, the vulnerability was fixed. After that, the hacker satya0x a reward of $10 has been awarded 000 000.

Source: Medium