{"id":96387,"date":"2026-04-22T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=96387"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:01:53","slug":"hackers-breach-volo-extract-3-5-million-from-wbtc-and-usdc-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-breach-volo-extract-3-5-million-from-wbtc-and-usdc-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Breach Volo, Extract $3.5 Million from WBTC and USDC Pools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Volo liquid staking protocol on the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-liquid-staking\">Sui<\/a> blockchain has been breached, with attackers extracting approximately $3.5 million from the project&#8217;s pools.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd12 Security Incident Update \u2014 Volo Protocol<\/p>\n<p>We want to address our community directly and transparently about a security incident that occurred earlier today. Rest assured, Volo is prepared to absorb any loss. <\/p>\n<p>What happened:<\/p>\n<p>An exploit resulted in the removal of approximately\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Volo (@volo_sui) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/volo_sui\/status\/2046715584201511351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The attack affected the WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults. Other asset pools, valued at $28 million, remained untouched. To halt the outflow of funds, developers froze the vulnerable smart contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Project representatives stated that $500,000 has already been recovered with the support of the Sui Foundation and partners. Volo plans to cover the remaining losses from its own reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The team is conducting an internal investigation in collaboration with on-chain analysts and is actively seeking the hackers. A detailed report on the incident and a compensation plan will be published later.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/eth-limo-regains-domain-control-after-easydns-breach\">breached<\/a> the ENS gateway eth.limo and cloud provider Vercel.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the Kelp liquid <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-restaking-and-how-to-make-money-from-it\">restaking<\/a> protocol suffered a hack, resulting in a loss of approximately $293 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volo liquid staking protocol on the Sui blockchain has been breached, with attackers extracting approximately $3.5 million from the project&#8217;s pools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Hackers extracted $3.5 million from Volo's WBTC and USDC pools.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1093,1651],"class_list":["post-96387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-defi","tag-sui-sui"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Hackers extracted $3.5 million from Volo's WBTC and USDC pools.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96387","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=96387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96389,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96387\/revisions\/96389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}