{"id":578132,"date":"2026-04-03T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/drift-sends-onchain-message-to-wallets-tied-to-280m-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:52:50","slug":"drift-sends-onchain-message-to-wallets-tied-to-280m-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/drift-sends-onchain-message-to-wallets-tied-to-280m-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Drift sends onchain message to wallets tied to $280M exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDUyODMtMDczYS03YWZkLTkwYWMtYzQwMDg4NDgzMTdjLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Drift sends onchain message to wallets tied to $280M exploit\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drift Protocol initiated onchain contact with wallets tied to the $280 million exploit as an unknown sender also attempts to pressure the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX), said Friday it had opened onchain contact with wallets tied to funds stolen in the exploit that outside firms have estimated at roughly $280 million to $286 million.<\/p>\n<p>Drift <a title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DriftProtocol\/status\/2039939068469870896?s=20\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DriftProtocol\/status\/2039939068469870896?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> on X that it had initiated onchain contact with wallets holding the stolen Ether (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\">ETH<\/a>), seeking to open a line of communication.<\/p>\n<p>The team sent onchain messages from its Ethereum address (<a title=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x0934fac45f2883dd5906d09acffdb5d18aadc105\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x0934fac45f2883dd5906d09acffdb5d18aadc105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">0x0934faC<\/a>) to four wallets linked to the exploiter at the time of publication, urging the attacker to reach out via Blockscan chat. \u201cWe are ready to speak,\u201d Drift said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/drift-protocol-contact-hacker-onchain-message\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drift Protocol initiated onchain contact with wallets tied to the $280 million exploit as an unknown sender also attempts to pressure the attacker. Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX), said Friday it had opened onchain contact with wallets tied to funds stolen in the exploit that outside firms have estimated at roughly $280 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-578132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}