EigenLayer: An investor's email was hijacked by hackers, who successfully replaced the address and stole 1.67 million EIGEN

Odaily News EigenLayer officially announced on X that an isolated incident occurred this morning, and an investor's email about transferring the vested tokens to the escrow address was hijacked by hackers. The hacker replaced the specific address, resulting in 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens being mistakenly transferred to the hacker's address. The hacker has sold the stolen EIGEN tokens through decentralized trading platforms and transferred the stablecoins to centralized exchanges. EigenLayer is in contact with these platforms and law enforcement agencies. Some funds have been frozen. This attack does not involve the EigenLayer protocol itself, and no vulnerabilities have been exposed in the protocol or token contract.