Lympo
Animoca Brands’ Lympo NFT platform hacked for $18.7 million
Sports NFT minting platform and Animoca Brands subsidiary Lympo suffered from a hot wallet security breach and lost 165.2 million LMT tokens worth $18.7 million at the time of the hack. A short Medium update from the Lympo team stated that on Jan. 10 hackers managed to gain access to Lympo’s operational hot wallet and “stole a total of approximately 165.2 million LMT from it.” According to the post, ten different project wallets were compromised in the attack. It appears that most of the stolen tokens were sent to a single address, swapped for Ether (ETH) on Uniswap and Sushiswap, then sent elsewhere. LMT price tumbled 92% to $0.0093 after hackers transferred then sold the loot from the project’s hot wallets. A subsequent Jan. 11 tweet from the team stated that they were “working on stabil...
