ZKSYNC Association confirmed the recovery of $ 5 million worth of theft tokens related to Air Drop distribution contracts on April 15th.
On April 23, the hacker agreed to accept the remaining 90% of the remaining 90% of the tokens as a 10% bounty by transferring nearly $ 5.7 million ZKSYNC Security Council.
Zksync Association was posted on April 23 and later re -published by Zksync’s X account.
Matter Labs, a company behind the ZKSYNC protocol, re -posted the news shared in X.
Zksync X accounts have confirmed that the user funds were not damaged before.
The hacker sent two transmissions of $ 18 million in Ether (ETH) in the ZKSYNC era blockchain to the ZKSYNC (ZK) token and the ZKSYNC Guarantee Council.
Etherscan Data said almost $ 1.4 million another 776 ETH was sent to the Ether Leeum address of the Security Council.
The first previous transfer was turned on the UTC at 2:39:57 pm on April 23, and the last transmission was within 72 hours set by ZK SYNC after about 13 minutes.
ZKSYNC Association said the company will post a final report that discloses the details of the security case.
How did the hack happened
The hacker violated ZKSync’s administrator account, and was able to exploit the AirDrop Distribution Contract () feature on a cleaned ZK token of $ 110 million, worth $ 5 million at the time of the April 15 attack.
Hacking occurred in the process of ZKSYNC revealing 17.5%of ZK token supply to ecosystems.
According to Coingecko data, the recovered amount (almost $ 5.7 million) has risen in the stolen token market value, exceeding the original stolen $ 5 million, and since the April 15 attack, ZK and ETH increased 16.6% and 8.8%, respectively.
Despite the recovery of assets, ZK tokens did not actually rise in the news and have now decreased 0.2% in the last 24 hours.
ZKSYNC ERA is an Ether Leeum Layer 2 solution that uses a zero knowledge rollup to match and handle overseas transactions. According to Defillama and RWA.XYZ, the total value is almost $ 59 million in the chain and the actual assets of the actual assets have more than $ 2 billion.
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