A hacker has managed to make off with only around $132,000 from their attack on the crypto protocol Meta Pool, which created $27 million worth of tokens they could have stolen. The attack was foiled by low liquidity and a pause on the exploited smart contract.

The attacker was able to mint 9,705 of the liquid staking protocol’s data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/liquid-restaking-tokens-vs-liquid-staking-tokens” title=”null”>token mpETH worth nearly $27 million, but only managed to steal around 52.5 Ether (ETH), worth just over $132,000 from the liquidity swap pools, Meta Pool said in a blog data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://medium.com/meta-pool/meta-pool-security-incident-on-mpeth-contract-on-ethereum-ba7a328d45c6″ rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>post on Tuesday. 

It added that some of the affected…

A hacker has managed to make off with only around $132,000 from their attack on the crypto protocol Meta Pool, which created $27 million worth of tokens they could have stolen. The attack was foiled by low liquidity and a pause on the exploited smart contract.

The attacker was able to mint 9,705 of the liquid staking protocol’s data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/liquid-restaking-tokens-vs-liquid-staking-tokens” title=”null”>token mpETH worth nearly $27 million, but only managed to steal around 52.5 Ether (ETH), worth just over $132,000 from the liquidity swap pools, Meta Pool said in a blog data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://medium.com/meta-pool/meta-pool-security-incident-on-mpeth-contract-on-ethereum-ba7a328d45c6″ rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>post on Tuesday. 

It added that some of the affected…