The Solana SOL/USD network went offline briefly on Tuesday night following reports that private keys to hot wallets in the ecosystem had been compromised.
What Happened: Solana Status reported a “minor service outage” prompting speculation from market participants that developers had intentionally halted the network to prevent the ongoing exploit from worsening.
#Solana hack.
— Amanjot | Hiring for multiple roles (@amanmalhotra911) August 3, 2022
Now, there’s a network outage.
The best way to save the chain is to get it off the internet
Update: The outage appears to be related to RPCs pinging “down”.
— Miles Deutscher (@milesdeutscher) August 3, 2022
The underlying chain appears to be operational. https://t.co/uV5Bsotf7k
“RPC Nodes are restoring service, appears to have been a concerted effort by some well-intentioned devs who thought spamming RPC would slow attacker, though in reality, it has just caused massive confusion,” wrote Solana validator operator Stakewiz on Twitter.
Ben Sparango, head of DeFi at Solana Labs, confirmed that the partial outage status was reflective of the RPC nodes pinging down.
solana is not down. RPC services that explorers are pinging are down
— SMS BEN SPARANG◎ (@bennybitcoins) August 3, 2022
"partial outage" on status.solana is misleading. It just means high tx volume
The RPC nodes' status means that the wallets and block explorers may not work as expected despite the fact that the underlying blockchain is still running.
Solana Status asked victims of the hack to share data of their compromised wallets in a typeform to the Solana Foundation.
There’s no evidence hardware wallets have been impacted – and users are strongly encouraged to use hardware wallets.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) August 3, 2022
Do not reuse your seed phrase on a hardware wallet - create a new seed phrase.
Wallets drained should be treated as compromised, and abandoned.
At press time, investigations were still underway and the root cause of the exploit remained unknown.
Price Action: At press time, SOL was trading at $38.04, down 6.4% over 24 hours, as per data from Benzinga Pro.
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