Security Incident · Wallet
Bittensor Security Vulnerability: $8.00M Reported Loss
On July 2, 2024, the decentralized AI project Bittensor was attacked, resulting in some Bittensor wallet users being compromised.
- Reported loss
- $ 8,000,000
- Attack category
- Security Vulnerability
Incident Overview
The hackers stole approximately 32,000 TAO tokens, valued at around $8 million. On-chain investigator ZachXBT suggested that the attack may have been due to a private key leak. However, Bittensor later clarified that the affected users were actually compromised because a malicious Bittensor package had been uploaded to the Python PyPi package manager.
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