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    Memecoin launcher pump.fun claims ex-employee behind $1.9M exploit

    2024.05.17 | exchangesranking | 115onlookers
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    Solana memecoin creation tool pump.fun has claimed a former employee exploited the firm for nearly $2 million through a “bonding curve” attack.

    The ex-employee used their “privileged position” to access a “withdraw authority” and compromise the protocol’s internal systems, pump.fun alleged in a May 16 X post.

    About $1.9 million was stolen from the total $45 million held in pump.fun’s bonding curve contracts.

    The platform temporarily paused trading but it is now back up and running.

    The pump.fun smart contracts “are safe” and users impacted by the incident will receive “100% of the liquidity” that it previously had within the next 24 hours, pump.fun said.

    Source: pump.fun

    Prior to pump.fun’s post, Igor Igamberdiev, the head of research at cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute, claimed the hack came about from an internal private key leak, which he suspected to be X user “STACCoverflow.”

    In a series of cryptic X posts, STACCoverflow claimed they were “about to change the course of history. n [sic] then rot in jail.” They added in a separate post they “do not care, I am already fully doxxed.”

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    In an earlier X post, pump.fun said it has been collaborating with law enforcement. It did not name the former employee and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    How the hack unfolded

    The alleged exploiter used flash loans on a Solana lending protocol Raydium to borrow Solana (SOL), which was then used to “buy as many coins” as possible, pump.fun said.

    Once the coins hit 100% on their respective bonding curves, the exploiter could then access the bonding curve liquidity and repay the flash loans.

    Approximately 12,300 SOL, worth $1.9 million was stolen in the attack, which pump.fun sai occurred between 3:21 pm and 5:00 pm UTC on May 16.

    The Solana memecoin launchpad said users impacted between these hours would recover 100% or more of the liquidity held prior to the attack.

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