Crypto Hack Hits Echo As Monad’s eBTC Market Faces Fallout
Echo Protocol is investigating a security incident on Monad involving its eBTC bridge. An attacker, via a compromised admin key, minted 1,000 eBTC (worth ~$76.64M), used 45 eBTC as collateral on Curvance to borrow ~11.3 WBTC (~$867K), bridged the WBTC to Ethereum, swapped it for ETH, and laundered funds through Tornado Cash. The attacker still held 955 eBTC. Echo suspended cross-chain transactions and later confirmed it regained control, burning the attacker's remaining eBTC. The exploit resulted in an estimated $816K loss, affected the eBTC market, but did not compromise the Monad network or Curvance's core contracts.
bitcoinist05/19 15:33
