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Qubit Finance Suffers $80M Hack With xETH Minting Scheme -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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Qubit Finance is Hit by a $80M Hack with the xETH Mining Scheme
    • Qubit Finance lost 206,809 BNB because of hack.
    • They want to make a lot of xETH in order to extract BNB from QBridge.
    • Qubit Finance is the latest source for DeFi exploits.

Qubit Finance was the victim of the most recent high-profile DeFi Hack. A $80 Million loss has been suffered recently by Qubit Finance, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that is based on Binance Smart Chain.

Hackers used their address in order to steal BNB (206,809) from Qubit’s QBridge protocol. Qubit Finance has issued a tweet in response to this hack. It informs their clients that they are tracking the hacker as well as the assets. It also advised the hacker that negotiations should be held before any firm actions are taken.

PeckShield, a data analytics and blockchain security company has disclosed that hackers were looking to steal a lot of xETH collateral. xETH is a secure wallet that allows for private transactions. It also offers more privacy than ETH payments. They have created a plan to steal all of the BNB on QBridge.

CertiK – a cybersecurity firm that specializes in blockchain technology – pointed out, in addition, that QBridge had a deposit option. With this, hackers illegally created 77.162 Qubit qXETH assets. Rekt data revealed that hackers used these fraudulent activities multiple times to convert all hacked assets into BNB. This makes it the 7th-largest DeFi exploit.

Fraudulent activities such as protocol exploits, rug pulls, and hacks continue to be a problem despite the growing crypto industry. Additonally, Crypto.com, a well-known crypto exchange reported a $34million loss in cryptocurrency transactions from 483 customers. Also, nearly $15 million in Ethereum and $19million worth of Ethereum were exploited. The incident also affected several other cryptocurrency.

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