White Hat Hacker Recovers 80% of $2.26M Stolen in Foom Cash Exploit

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White Hat Hacker Recovers 81% of Stolen Funds from Foom Cash Foom Cash, a decentralized anonymous lottery protocol, lost approximately $2.26 million due to a security exploit. A white-hat hacker named Duha intervened and successfully recovered $1.84 million, which is 81% of the stolen funds. The exploit was caused by a misconfiguration of the Groth16 verifier during Foom Cash's deployment, allowing attackers to submit forged proofs. 5 sources 33