Yesterday, after the turmoil went through by Solana ecosystem, data indicates that Slope (a wallet provider) is hugely responsible for a security hack that took away crypto from several Solana consumers. Slope counts as a provider of Web3-based wallets operating on the layer-1 protocol of the Solana blockchain. On 3rd August, with the official Twitter account “Solana Status”, the Solana Foundation accused Slope noting that the influenced addresses were seemingly at some point developed, utilized, or imported to the mobile-based wallet apps of Slope.

Solana Says Slope Wallets Are Responsible for the Wallet Attack

Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana, additionally created a connection between the exploit as well as the Slope wallets. He instructed the consumers that a seed phrase should be restarted by them from some service except Slope as shortly as possible. An influenced user was advised by him to initiate a separation between the hot and cold wallets.

The wallet exploits on the Solana platform were initially witnessed on 2nd August, following the community started reporting that drainage of Solana (SOL), as well as the rest of the tokens, was taking place in the crypto wallets in their possession. It is anticipated that a rough $8M worth of crypto was taken away from approximately 8,000 wallets. The Solana Foundation, via its investigation, ensured that every compromised wallet’s private keys were accidentally transferred to an app monitoring service like Slope.

Solana’s Austin Says Issue Was Just with Hot Wallets

It also mentioned that a few reports have asserted that there may be a part played by Slope in logging the consumer seed phrases on centralized servers owned by it. The seed phrases might have been leaked due to the compromise of the servers, letting the hacker use them for the execution of the transfers. Former reports of the respective exploit pointed out that Phantom and Slope’s hot wallets’ customers were preyed upon and many believed that the Solana protocol could be entangled in a huge problem.

Nonetheless, a further analysis that Austin Fedora (the head of communication at Solana) shared brought to the front that the issue was only related to the hot wallets. In the words of Fedora, sixty percent of the influenced were phantom consumers, and the seed phrases were generated by them via utilizing Phantom. Slope released a statement discussing the present investigation over the matter on Wednesday endorsing that a unit of Slope wallets got compromised in the attack, taking also into account those belonging to its staff members.