Bitfinex CEO Paolo Ardoino recently revealed a failed attempt by a hacker to exploit his system using a resource on the XRP Ledger network.
In the exploit, attackers attempted to move almost US$15 billion in XRP, equivalent to half of the cryptocurrency’s total value. However, the exploitation attempt was thwarted, with the criminals only obtaining a few cents of XRP from the transaction. The hack resulted in a failure because the sender did not have enough balance for the transactions to be carried out.
In a post on the X application, Ardoino confirmed the attempted exploitation:
“Someone tried to attack @bitfinex via “Partial Payments Exploit”. The attack failed because Bitfinex correctly handles the ‘delivered_amount’ data field.”
Someone attempted to attack @bitfinex via “Partial Payments Exploit”.
Attack failed since Bitfinex properly handles ‘delivered_amount’ data field.https://t.co/EiGw9UQmmq(updated with better gif) https://t.co/8I7vlO05ou pic.twitter.com/DxOnJLLkhU
— Paolo Ardoino 🍐 (@paoloardoino) January 14, 2024
At the time of publication, the price of XRP was quoted at US$0.5775 with an increase of 0.3% in the last 24 hours. During this period, the cryptocurrency recorded a trading volume of US$992,398,201.
The exploit was intended to make the Bitfinex platform treat the transfer as real, which could lead to a hack. However, the platform’s system ended up recognizing the criminals’ transfer as a “partial payment”, which is a feature of the XRP Ledger in which payments can be reduced.
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Source: https://portalcripto.com.br/hacker-tenta-roubar-mais-de-us-15-bilhoes-em-xrp-da-bitfinex/
