Older Version of DeFi Yield Aggregator Yearn Finance Exploited for $11.6M
An attacker minted 1.2 quadrillion tokens by exploiting a Yearn vulnerability, selling them for $11.6 million in stablecoins.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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