{"id":10591,"date":"2024-02-10T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-breach-playdapp-gaming-platform-for-31-million\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T12:35:17","slug":"hackers-breach-playdapp-gaming-platform-for-31-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-breach-playdapp-gaming-platform-for-31-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Breach PlayDapp Gaming Platform for $31 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified hacker minted 200 million PLA tokens, valued at approximately $31 million, during a breach of the PlayDapp blockchain gaming platform, according to cybersecurity experts from PeckShield.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playdapp_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@playdapp_io<\/a>, you may want to take a look. <\/p>\n<p>New 200m <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PLA&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PLA<\/a> tokens were just freshly minted. It seems to be a private key leak and the new minter was just added in the following tx: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tyxDksNwSt\">https:\/\/t.co\/tyxDksNwSt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SkjZsTjtdQ\">pic.twitter.com\/SkjZsTjtdQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peckshield\/status\/1755995848209469931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The incident also caught the attention of experts at Cyvers Alerts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?UPDATE?Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playdapp_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@playdapp_io<\/a>, $5.9M worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PLA&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PLA<\/a> has been deposited to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gate_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gate_io<\/a> exchange at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/781eNOHvxy\">https:\/\/t.co\/781eNOHvxy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may want to contact them to freeze these assets!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CyversALert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CyversALert<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SjYq9jaKfW\">https:\/\/t.co\/SjYq9jaKfW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ? Cyvers Alerts ? (@CyversAlerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyversAlerts\/status\/1756232598584430684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator added their address as a minter and distributed the stolen tokens across several wallets. A portion, valued at $5.9 million, was transferred to the Gate.io cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayDapp team confirmed the incident and the issuance of additional PLA tokens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have directly notified all partner exchanges and are collaborating with them to suspend trading and address the unauthorized tokens. We are working to resolve the issue. We will do our best to minimize the impact on PLA holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PlayDapp (@playdapp_io) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playdapp_io\/status\/1756060875583316472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cWe recognize the seriousness of the situation and are taking action. We have directly notified all partner exchanges and are collaborating with them to suspend trading of unauthorized tokens. We will do our utmost to minimize the impact on PLA holders,\u201d stated PlayDapp.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the past 24 hours, the PLA token has fallen by 11.8%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/playdapp\">CoinGecko<\/a>. At the time of writing, the coin is trading below $0.16.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1\" class=\"wp-image-225781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-02-10-v-14.01.03-1-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of PLA\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/PLAUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of January, the DeFi protocol Abracadabra Finance lost $6.5 million in an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that month, on-chain researcher ZachXBT reported a $112 million theft from Ripple following a hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified hacker minted 200 million PLA tokens, valued at approximately $31 million, during a breach of the PlayDapp blockchain gaming platform, according to cybersecurity experts from PeckShield. Hi @playdapp_io, you may want to take a look. New 200m $PLA tokens were just freshly minted. It seems to be a private key leak and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}