IRA Financial Trust hack: $36M in crypto stolen💰

Events Under the Spotlight

TopGoal NFT, a global GameFi and NFT platform’s hot wallet was attacked

After the attack, the team released an official postmortem, of the event. All NFT’s funds are safe.
Total 4,809,984 TMT tokens were compromised in the hack.

RigoBlock, a decentralised asset management protocol, was exploited

All the tokens at the Dragos, except USDT and ETH, are at the risk due to an exploited vulnerability in the protocol.

Build Finance, a venture capital organization DAO became a victim of governance takeover

The attacker successfully took over the organization bypassing a majority vote in the pool.
The hacker minted 1,000,000,000 $BUILD tokens.
Funds were routed through Tornado Cash.

Titano Finance, a high-yield optimising platform on BSC, was exploited

The attacker made a total profit of 4,828.7 BNB.
Titano team released an official announcement stating the reimbursement of tokens.

IRA Financial, a leading provider of self-directed retirement accounts, was hacked leading to a theft of $36 Million

The hackers withdrew $21 Million in Bitcoin and $15 Million in Ether from the accounts of IRA Financial Trust.
The stolen funds were routed through Tornado Cash.

A user account on FutureSwap compromised

FutureSwap is a decentralized derivatives trading platform.
The attacker gained access to the account and transferred the rewards to the hacker-owned wallet on Arbitrum.

To the Numerophiles out there 🔢

British authorities just seized NFTs for the first time, in a £1.4 million fraud probe.

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