How a Minor Programming Error Enabled a Hacker to Steal $7.8 Million From a Crypto Wallet
In the rapidly evolving world of decentralized finance, even a seemingly trivial coding oversight can have catastrophic financial consequences. This was starkly illustrated in a recent incident where a hacker managed to siphon off $7.8 million from a cryptocurrency wallet, not by exploiting the core Safe platform, but by taking advantage of a small helper contract that the wallet’s owner had prev…
Sept. 15, 2026, 10:27 a.m.