On Monday, a hacker reportedly stole from a wallet that was believed to be a liquidity provider on Uniswap.
The victim had mistakenly given access to the hacker through a fake airdrop.on the Uniswap decentralized exchange .
Smart contract security firm PeckShield told The Block that the liquidity provider had inadvertently fallen victim to a phishing tactic, which allowed the hacker to steal more than 7,500 ether .victim claimed the token, they interacted with a malicious smart contract that inadvertently gave the hacker full control over the victim's wallet.
At the time of the attack, the wallet was providing $8 million to a WBTC/USDC liquidity pool on Uniswap version 3 . After gaining illegitimate access to the wallet, the hacker exited the user’s liquidity position, swapped the assets and transferred them out. While doing this, the hacker routed the funds through Tornado Cash, a transaction mixer on the Ethereum network.
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