Although the hacker who hacked Curve Finance has started to return the funds, the total amount is quite large – over $73 million. Therefore, transactions involving these tokens take up a notable share of the. The attacker has already recovered $52.3 million in assets.
According to Chainalysis, from July 30 to Aug. 5, the percentage of transactions involving criminally gained assets ranged from 1.7% to 1.82%. At the same time earlier the maximum share of such transactions reached only 1.46%. On August 6, however, the index returned to normal.
The Curve Finance hack is far from the largest in terms of funds stolen. However, it is when this protocol was hacked that a sharp increase in the proportion of transactions involving criminal assets was recorded.
Earlier it was reported
of a hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Cypher. The attackers managed to withdraw about $1 million in assets.