Security Incident · Solana Ecosystem
pump.fun Flash Loan Attack: $1.90M Reported Loss
pump.fun is a Solana-based memecoin generator.
- Reported loss
- $ 1,900,000
- Attack category
- Flash Loan Attack
Incident Overview
On May 16th, the project suffered a $1.9 million exploit by an attacker who then began airdropping the money to somewhat random wallets. pump.fun stated on Twitter that the attack was due to a former employee exploiting their privileges within the company to illegally obtain withdrawal permissions and using a lending protocol to carry out flash loan attacks.
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