INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
High-profile heists are becoming more common in the cryptocurrency worldHigh-profile heists or hacks are becoming more common in the
cryptocurrency world, and Qubit Finance is the most recent decentralised finance (DeFi) platform to be targeted by hackers
They were able to gain access to Qubit Finance, which is built on the Binance Smart Chain, and steal approximately $80 million (about Rs 600
Qubit's QBridge protocol was robbed of 2,06,809 Binance Coin (BNB) by the addresses associated with the heist
This is the largest cryptocurrency heist in 2022 so far
Qubit Finance admitted to the heist in a tweet
“The team is currently working with security and network partners on next steps
We will share further updates when available,” stated the tweet.According to security firm PeckShield, the assets were valued over $80
PeckShield had audited Qubit's smart contracts
The security firm also stated that the QBridge was hacked to mint a “huge amount of xETH collateral” that was then used to drain the
entire amount of Binance Coin held on QBridge.DeFi platforms such as Qubit Finance use smart contracts rather than third parties to provide
customers with financial services such as trading, lending, and borrowing
Users can supply their cryptocurrency holdings to the Qubit protocol and borrow money against those for a predetermined amount
QBridge is a cross-chain functionality that allows users to collateralise their assets on other networks without having to move their assets
between chains.The attacker used a deposit option in the QBridge contract to fraudulently generate 77,162 qXETH, which is an asset
representing Ether bridged via Qubit, according to an “incident analysis” by security firm CertiK
The procedure was tricked into assuming that attackers had made a deposit when they hadn't
CertiK stated that the hacker repeated these acts several times, converting all of the assets to Binance Coin.The Qubit team issued a
statement to inform clients that the hacker and their impacted assets were being monitored
The blog post also states that they have contacted the hacker to provide the “maximum bounty offer” as calculated by their
programme.According to data from CoinGecko at the time of writing, Qubit's QBT was down 34.6 per cent
Much of the fall happened after the heist came to light.
