This $2.4 Million Crypto Heist Will Make You Laugh (or Cry) – Shibarium’s Epic Oops!

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Hold on to your dog collars, folks! Shibarium, the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution that thinks it’s just a bunch of cute Shiba Inus playing fetch, just got outfoxed in a big way. They lost around $2.4 million faster than you can say “Who let the hacker in?!” 🚨🐕‍🦺

Hacker Pulls Off The Greatest Doggy Heist – 4.6 Million BONE Snatched! 💀

In a shocking X post (because nothing says “serious crisis” like a tweet), the Shiba Inu brainiacs spilled the beans: some sneaky hacker took a flash loan-style detour and snagged 4.6 million BONE tokens-like grabbing a chew toy way too big for your mouth-*all in one block.* This cheeky villain temporarily wielded voting power on the Shibarium network, basically turning into the Big Dog signing some seriously malicious stuff. Talk about a bad pup! 🐾

How’d they do it? Well, the flash loans were paid back with cold hard Ethereum (224.57 ETH, aka $1.05 million) *and* a jaw-dropping 92.6 billion SHIB tokens (about $1.3 million). But don’t get too excited-the BONE tokens stayed locked up tighter than Grandma’s cookie jar thanks to staking, so the thief couldn’t just dash off to the dog park with them immediately.

Unfortunately, 10 out of 12 validators-those digital watchdogs keeping things honest-were hacked. Only good ol’ K9 Finance and Unification validators said, “No way, José!” and put on their big boy pants to resist the shady signing. Meanwhile, other tokens also got munched on: LEASH ($645,000), ROAR ($284,000), TREAT ($50,000), BAD ($17,000), and SHIFU ($10,000) all made a run for it-yet somehow, the hacker’s greedy plan to sell off $700,000 worth of KNINE tokens was stopped colder than a Siberian winter when the K9 Finance DAO blacklisted their address. Freeze! 🥶 The hacker now has 248 billion KNINE tokens stuck like a bad joke at a party.

Shibarium Team Barks Back: Security Measures and What’s Next 🦴

In response, the Shibarium team hit pause faster than a bad sitcom laugh-track on their staking and unstaking to protect the pack’s necks. They scrambled those funds into a Fort Knox-style “6-of-9 hardware multisig wallet” (which sounds like a spy gadget but okay). Hexens, Seal911, and PeckShield security squads were called in faster than you can say “To the Batcave!” to sniff out the messy forensic details of this cyber-belly flop.

And in true Hollywood plot twist style, developer Kaal Dhairya (because every story needs a hero with a cool handle) hinted they might even cut the hacker a deal. Yep, this is the cyber-equivalent of “turn yourself in and maybe we’ll name a bone after you.” A small bounty might be on the table if the stolen goods come home. Who knew crypto crime paid *so* well? 💰

As the dust settles, Shibarium tokens are feeling the sting. SHIB itself took a little stumble down by 1.67%, trading at a measly 0.000014. Meanwhile, LEASH and BONE are napping with losses of 5.69% and a whopping 21.98%-some serious puppy eyes on those charts! 📉

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2025-09-14 18:13