Jose Sequeira 
Two individuals were detained by French police in relation to the exploit that resulted in the $9.1 million heist from Platypus, and 210,000 euros’ worth of cryptocurrencies were also recovered.
According to Platypus, on-chain detective ZachXBT and cryptocurrency exchange Binance assisted in the investigations that resulted in the arrests. On February 16, the same perpetrator conducted three different lightning lending assaults that each undermined the decentralized system.
Platypus was Attacked Through a Flash Lending Technique
Many stablecoins and other digital assets were stolen as a result of the assaults. The initial attack led to the theft of assets worth around $8.5 million. In the second instance, some 380,000 assets were unintentionally submitted to the Aave v3 contract. The third attempt resulted in the theft of an estimated $287,000 dollars. Platypus USD (USP), a stablecoin, lost its peg to the dollar as a result of the attack.
Platypus recently revealed that the criminals took advantage of a logical flaw in the collateral’s solvency verification process of USP by using a flash lending technique. Operations for converting stablecoin to fiat are unaffected.
Reimbursing the Impacted Clients
Avi Eisenberg, a Mango Market exploiter who took credit for the October 2022 MNGO currency price manipulation, described his technique as a “lightning attack.” Eisenberg said following the assault that “all of our acts were lawful, open market, and used the procedure as planned.” On December 28, Eisenberg was taken into custody in Puerto Rico on suspicion of fraud.
On February 23, Platypus made a statement outlining a strategy to reimburse impacted customers. The protocol states that 63% of the money from the primary pool will be refunded in just six months. The idea states that 78% of the money might be recovered through the reinvention of frozen stablecoins.
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