A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.
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Hacker turns 25 cents of Bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on Symbiosis bridge
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