Solana Blames Slope Wallet for Hack While Slope Says that 'Nothing is Yet Firm'

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The team behind the Solana (SOL) blockchain has tied the widespread hack that affected over 8,000 wallets and resulted in the loss of over USD 8m worth of funds to the closed-source Slope wallet.

"After an investigation by developers, ecosystem teams, and security auditors, it appears affected addresses were at one point created, imported, or used in Slope mobile wallet applications," the official Solana Status Twitter account said.

In an official statement, Slope neither confirmed nor rejected the claim, but said that "nothing is yet firm" and that they currently have "some hypotheses as to the nature of the breach."

"We are actively conducting internal investigations and audits, working with top external security and audit groups," the Slope team said, asking users to create a new and unique seed phrase wallet and transfer all their assets to this new wallet.

Slope is a web-based, non-custodial crypto wallet and browser extension that allows users to manage assets on the Solana blockchain.

As reported, an ongoing Solana hack that affected more than 8,000 wallets drained millions worth of funds from users. The exact amount of lost funds varied between USD 4.5m and USD 8m worth of funds, depending on the source, but per the dashboard provided by the scanning tool for the Solana ecosystem, Solscan, at 7:30 UTC on Thursday morning, a total of USD 8.58m has been transferred to the hacker's wallets so far.

The Solana team has rejected any possibility that the hack was a result of a bug with the blockchain's core code. "This does not appear to be a bug with Solana core code, but in software used by several software wallets popular among users of the network," the team said.

There is no evidence the Solana protocol or its