NEAR Intents Identifies $3.8M Hacker, Gives Them 48 Hours to Return Funds

Key points

• NEAR Intents GM Alex Shevchenko said the attacker behind a roughly $3.8 million exploit was identified and gave 48 hours to return funds to listed addresses.
• The platform said a bug between its Omni deposit/withdrawal infrastructure and the Intents smart contract caused the loss, patched within an hour, with users to be compensated fully.
• Co-founder Illia Polosukhin said the exploit was isolated to USDT on BSC and that SHIELD flagged outlier behavior; NEAR Protocol said it was unaffected.

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