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 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 post on Tuesday.
It added that some of the affected…

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