On-chain detective: THORSwap offers a bounty of over $1 million for the THORChain founder wallet vulnerability

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, on-chain detective ZachXBT revealed that THORSwap has repeatedly offered bounties to the hacker who attacked a user's personal wallet in recent days. The victim is suspected to be THORChain founder John-Paul Thorbjornsen.

The latest on-chain information on Friday shows that returning the THOR tokens will be rewarded, and no legal action will be taken if returned within 72 hours, with contact information provided. PeckShield initially reported that the THORChain protocol was attacked with a loss of about $1.2 million, but later corrected that it was a user's personal wallet that was compromised. ZachXBT stated that the wallet likely belonged to John-Paul Thorbjornsen, who had $1.35 million stolen by North Korean hackers on Tuesday.

Thorbjornsen admitted that the attack originated from a fake Zoom link sent by a friend's hacked Telegram account. He said the emptied old MetaMask wallet was in another logged-out Chrome profile, with the key stored in the iCloud Keychain, and the attacker may have accessed it through a zero-day vulnerability. This has further convinced him that threshold signature wallets are the only true means of protection.