According to ChainCatcher, EigenLayer officially published a post on X saying that an isolated incident occurred this morning, and an investor's email about transferring the vested tokens to the escrow address was hijacked by hackers. The hacker replaced the specific address, resulting in 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens being mistakenly transferred to the hacker's address. The hacker has sold these stolen EIGEN tokens through a decentralized trading platform and transferred the stablecoins to a centralized exchange.
EigenLayer said it is in contact with these platforms and law enforcement. Some funds have been frozen. The attack did not involve the EigenLayer protocol itself, and no vulnerabilities were exposed in the protocol or token contracts.
According to previous news, Lookonchain monitoring showed that a certain address received 1.67 million EIGEN from the Eigenlayer team wallet and sold them all at a price of US$3.3, equivalent to approximately US$5.51 million.
