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Crypto

A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge

A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
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Summary

Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.

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