Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem
KITE Foundation Private Key Leak
The KITE Foundation detected abnormal KITE token transfers on Ethereum mainnet, confirming that some wallet addresses had been compromised by hackers.
- Reported loss
- 0
- Attack category
- Private Key Leakage
Incident Overview
The team urgently paused ERC-20 transfers and related cross-chain channels, with no asset losses to users or the project. A new contract was later deployed, airdropping new tokens 1:1 to legitimate addresses based on the snapshot at block 25,692,498, excluding attacker-controlled addresses.
Sources & References
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