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Pike Finance Suffers Double Attack in 3 Days, Loses $1.98M in Smart Contract Exploit

^{A recent report by Cyvers Alert, a blockchain security and analytics firm, revealed a troubling discovery}: the hacker managed to exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts across three different chains – Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism – all on April 30.

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The attacker gained control over the output address within Pike Finance’s smart contract, orchestrating a significant transfer of cryptocurrency to their own account. The damage totaled $1.4 million in Ether (ETH), $150 thousand in Optimism (OP) tokens, and over $100 thousand in Arbitrum (ARB) tokens.

Pike Finance Exploited Twice in Three Days, Over $1.6 Million Lost

On early Wednesday morning ^{,blockchain security firm Cyvers identified several anomalous transactions on the cross-chain lending protocol of Pike Finance}. Cyvers further revealed that this suspicious transaction resulted in a substantial financial loss of approximately $1.6 million.

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