The malicious actor behind the infamous hack incident that stole over 80,000 ETH from Wormhole in 2022 was briefly entitled to receive an undisclosed amount of airdropped W tokens, pseudonymous blockchain researcher Pland revealed.
In his social media post on X, Pland quipped:
“Wormhole forgot to exclude the exploiter from the airdrop.”
Degen News corroborated the finding, disclosing that four Solana wallets linked to the hacker could claim $52,700 worth of W tokens.
Austin Federa, the head of strategy at Solana Foundation, saw the funny side to this episode, saying:
“This is actually an incredible commitment to protocol neutrality.”
Meanwhile, this news attracted widespread community scrutiny, prompting the Wormhole team to remove these addresses’ eligibility. CryptoSlate confirmed the exclusion of these addresses via the Airdrop Checker website.
Wormhole airdrop
Interoperability protocol Wormhole released its native W token on April 3 to much acclaim from the crypto communi
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