Oasis ‘Counter Exploits’ Wormhole Hacker to Retrieve $225M on Court Order
- Oasis received an order from the High Court of England and Wales to retrieve the funds from an address associated with the Wormhole exploit.
- The DeFi platform retrieved $225 million with the help of a whitehat hacker group.
- The whitehat hacker group exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in the design of the admin multisig acess to retrieve the funds.
Oasis, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has been able to retrieve the stolen funds associated with the Wormhole exploit.
Wormhole, a bridge on Solana, got exploited for around $326 million worth of wrapped ether (WETH) on February 2. The hacker then moved the stolen funds through various DeFi platforms, including Oasis.
But the hacker didn’t go too far. Oasis said in a blog post on Friday that it received an order from the High Court of England and Wales to retrieve funds from an account associated with the Wormhole exploit.
The DeFi platform was able to retrieve $225 million in stolen funds thanks to a whitehat hacker group that essentially “counter exploited” the Wormhole hacker. The group, which according to Blockworks Research is Jump Crypto, offered its help by exposing a previously unknown vulnerability in the design of the admin multisig access.
However, Oasis said that there are no other vulnerabilities in the protocol and that user assets are always safe and no unauthorized party can access them.
“We stress that this access was there with the sole intention to protect user assets in the event of any potential attack, and would have allowed us to move quickly to patch any vulnerability disclosed to us. It should be noted that at no point, in the past or present, have user assets been at risk of being accessed by any unauthorized party.”
Oasis said that it immediately sent the retrieved funds to a wallet controlled by the authorized third party, as required by the court order, and that it has no control over them.
On the Flipside
- Some industry observers were worried about Oasis’ ability to upgrade the contract to comply with the law.
Why You Should Care
It’s encouraging to see justice served to crypto hackers. However, users should also be aware that some decentralized finance platforms seem to have the ability to upgrade their smart contracts to favor one side over the other. Users should always do their own research before choosing where to trade and invest.
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