TechFlow news: On October 5, EigenLayer announced on social platform X that an attack targeting a single investor occurred earlier that morning. The hacker successfully hijacked the investor's email communications regarding vested token transfers and replaced the recipient address.
The attack led to the incorrect transfer of 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens to an address controlled by the hacker. The hacker subsequently sold these stolen tokens through decentralized exchanges and transferred the resulting stablecoins to centralized exchanges. EigenLayer stated it is cooperating with relevant exchanges and law enforcement agencies, and some funds have already been successfully frozen.
The official statement emphasized that this incident was an isolated event targeting a single investor and did not affect the EigenLayer protocol itself; no vulnerabilities were found in the protocol or token contract.
