The Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern District of New York and the investigation department for internal security in San Diego, California, seized $ 31 million cryptocurrencies related to the hacking of the decentralized Uranium Finance platform in April 2021.

American law enforcement officers did not provide details about hackers, but asked the victims of the incident to contact the departments regarding the return of the stolen funds.

Uranium Finance was the BNB Chain fork -Automated Market Maker Uniswap, which launched his first version on April 1, 2021. The platform closed after a hacker attack that happened in April of the same year. On the Uranium Finance page on the X social network, no messages were published since April 30, 2021, so the injured customers all this time remained in the ignorance of compensation for their financial losses.

After hacking, one of the administrators of the Uranium Finance channel on Discord suggested that the means could steal an insider. The hacker took advantage of the errors in the software code of the Uranium V2 smart contract to increase the project balance by 100 times. This error allowed the attacker to steal the BNB coin and Binance USD (Busd) steelcoins, which at that time were estimated at $ 36.8 million. In addition, 80 BTC, 1800 ETH, 26 500 DOT, 5.7 million USDT, 638 000 ADA were stolen, 638 000 ADA and 112,000 internal Uranium tokens – U92. The total amount of stolen crypto acts amounted to about $ 50 million.

The hacker later converted the Polkadot and Cardano coins on the air, which he then washed through the Tornado Cash cryptomyxer and transferred to centralized crypto -rhins. At the beginning of April 2021, hackers also hacked the Uranium V1 Platform pool, stole BNB and Busd $ 1.3 million.

At the beginning of the year, the US Marshals Service received a court permission to sell 69,370 bitcoins in the amount of $ 6.5 billion, previously confiscated from the Silk Road darkennet.