{"id":54556,"date":"2021-12-13T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54556"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:02:50","slug":"hackers-breached-vulcan-forged-users-wallets-and-siphoned-tokens-worth-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-breached-vulcan-forged-users-wallets-and-siphoned-tokens-worth-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers breached Vulcan Forged users&#8217; wallets and siphoned tokens worth $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors compromised 148 wallets of Vulcan Forged NFT marketplace users and stole 4.5 million PYR tokens (more than $100 million at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">148 wallets holding PYR have been compromised. Over 4.5m PYR has been been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>While we will replace the PYR taken, our first steps are understanding what\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n<p>No words can do much right now, we know that. We\u2019ll keep updated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vulcan Forged (@VulcanForged) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VulcanForged\/status\/1470201106626224140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to Vulcan Forged, hackers gained access to users&#8217; private keys.<\/p>\n<p>The team emphasised that it has already contacted exchanges asking them to blacklist the wallet address linked to the hack. It is also reported that on one exchange its owner may have gone through a <span data-descr=\"Know Your Customer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span> procedure, but Vulcan Forged has not disclosed details yet.<\/p>\n<p>The marketplace promised to compensate all stolen PYR tokens and other coins if the attackers took them. The platform team has also begun developing a fully decentralized solution for configuring wallets.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the news, the price of the PYR token fell by almost 15%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/IZNJehRqnofagj2-5JfQeF100CjrKYfs4cXNOVM5H8AUnh6eBcxBUmRRTGi4s71WCz48GDUqBex2sT7GUaGiy1dJGsOJvXT4L-3sYsxyDLWdEvTUvweWZ3glQkg5f2yMG-0a3U7i\" alt=\"Hackers breached Vulcan Forged users' wallets and siphoned tokens worth $100 million\" \/><figcaption> Chart of PYR\/USDT on KuCoin. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/chart\/?symbol=KUCOIN%3APYRUSDT\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, the cryptocurrency exchange AscendEX reported <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-drain-more-than-77-million-from-ascendex-hot-wallets\">a hack of hot wallets<\/a> on Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart Chain.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors compromised 148 wallets of Vulcan Forged NFT marketplace users and stole 4.5 million PYR tokens (more than $100 million at the time of writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54557,"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":[1154,1142],"class_list":["post-54556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556","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=54556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54558,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions\/54558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}