BlockBeats News, January 9th. The Ethereum-based verification and computation protocol Truebit encountered a security vulnerability on Thursday, losing approximately 8,535 ETH (about $26.6 million). The vulnerability allowed an attacker to purchase the protocol's native token TRU at an extremely low price.According to CoinGecko data, after this attack, Truebit's TRU token price crashed by 100%, plummeting from around $0.16 to $0.0000000007191, rendering the market cap incalculable.