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The global digital asset market wakes to the 5th largest DeFi hack of all time. Nearly $200 million were drained from the Nomad, a bridge protocol. According to a blockchain security firm, more than 41 addresses have been identified which grabbed millions of dollars during the theft.
41 address grabbed over $152 million in Nomad Hack
As per PeckShield, 41 addresses grabbed over $152 million in the Nomad bridge exploit. It amounted to 80% of the total hack. This includes 7 MEV Bots, 7 Rari Capital Arbitrum exploiter, and 6 White Hat.
It added that around 10% of these addresses with the ENS names got $6.1 million out of this exploit. While MEV Bots grabbed $7.1 million and Rari Arbitrum exploiter took $3.4 million.
After this major attack Nomad has landed on the list of biggest exploits in 2022. However, This hack was slightly different from the others as the funds drained out the protocol over hours and in small batches.
First hackers were not well skilled
Mudit Gupta, CISO at Polygon, in a Twitter thread said that the attacker could have taken everything in a single transaction in the Nomad hack. However, they didn’t do that and got the front run. He mentioned that the front run was done from both whitehats and blackhats.
