For a very brief time, an X post made by Whale Alert claimed that as much as 25.6 billion XRP were on the move from an unknown wallet to the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.
Given that the amount of cryptocurrency supposedly moved amounts to approximately half of all circulating supply of XRP, the post immediately raised eyebrows and was quickly removed with the justification that “there was an issue with properly reading the #Ripple node response.”
Around the same time, Paolo Ardoino, the CTO of Bitfinex and CEO of Tether, took to X to explain that the transaction – worth approximately $15 billion – was, in fact, an attempted “partial payments exploit” attack against the exchange.
He also stated that the attack was unsuccessful as “Bitfinex properly handles ‘delivered_amount’ data field.”
Someone attempted to attack @bitfinex via “Partial Payments Exploit”.Attack failed since Bitfinex properly handles ‘delivered_amount’ data field.https://t.co/EiGw9UQmmq
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