{"id":49830,"date":"2021-09-21T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49830"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:38:59","slug":"hacker-drains-35-million-in-crypto-assets-from-defi-protocol-vee-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hacker-drains-35-million-in-crypto-assets-from-defi-protocol-vee-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker drains $35 million in crypto assets from DeFi protocol Vee.Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown attacker hacked the lending platform Vee.Finance and withdrew tokenized Bitcoin and Ethereum worth about $35 million.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcement: Our platform may have been exploited. All services have been paused. We are investigating the cause, please follow our official accounts for latest update. <br \/>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vee.finance\ud83d\udd3a (@VeeFinance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeeFinance\/status\/1440102406499356675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2021<\/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\">\n<p>\u00abOur platform may have been hacked. All services have been paused. We are investigating the cause. Please follow the latest updates on our official accounts\u00bb, wrote representatives of the DeFi project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to information in <a href=\"https:\/\/veefi.medium.com\/vee-finance-accident-announcement-5e75ff197da6\">the Vee.Finance blog<\/a>, the total value of stolen assets exceeded $35 million (8,804.7 WETH and 213.93 WBTC). The hacker has not yet moved the funds to external platforms. The DeFi project\u2019s team is trying to contact the attacker in the hope of recovering the assets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vee-Etherscan.png\" alt=\"Hacker drains $35 million in crypto assets from the DeFi protocol Vee.Finance\" class=\"wp-image-150045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vee-Etherscan.png 630w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vee-Etherscan-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0xeeeE458C3a5eaAfcFd68681D405FB55Ef80595BA#tokentxns\">Etherscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to journalist Colin Wu, Vee.Finance has attracted investments from more than 20 venture investors, including Huobi. The protocol has been audited by Certik and SlowMist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The exploited money may exceed 35 millin. It received investment from more than 20 capital such as Huobi, and passed the audits of certik and slowmist. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yyOt76a4wg\">https:\/\/t.co\/yyOt76a4wg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3S3imFSlm6\">https:\/\/t.co\/3S3imFSlm6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1440145053620400129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the cross-chain DeFi protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-project-pnetwork-loses-277-btc-in-hacker-attack\">pNetwork lost 277 BTC<\/a> due to a hacking attack.<\/p>\n<p>On September 13, 2021, a hacker withdrew from the DeFi protocol Zabu Finance on the Avalanche blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-project-on-the-avalanche-blockchain-hacked-for-3-2-million\">assets worth $3.2 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On September 17, the attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-stole-more-than-3-million-from-sushiswaps-miso-platform\">stole 864.8 ETH<\/a> (~$3.09 million at the time) from the IDO platform MISO of the SushiSwap protocol. On the same day he returned the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown attacker hacked the lending platform Vee.Finance and withdrew tokenized Bitcoin and Ethereum worth about $35 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1093],"class_list":["post-49830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-defi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830","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=49830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49832,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830\/revisions\/49832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}