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<p class="is-style-lead">The arbitrage bot was hacked and lost about $2 million in one of the pools of the Curve Finance platform.</p> 
<p>This was first reported by a user under the pseudonym Spreek. He suggested that the hack occurred due to the 0xf6ebebbb() function.</p> 
<p>This was confirmed by Beosin. According to them, the attacker took advantage of the fact that it was available without authorization to force a swap between pools.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨An unknown MEV bot was hacked for ~$2M. <a href="https://t.co/HC2QYEfGZ7" target="_blank">https://t.co/HC2QYEfGZ7</a><br><br>The root cause was that the arbitrage function 0xf6ebebbb() did not have authentication, allowing the attacker to call 0xf6ebebbb() to force swaps across multiple <a href="https://t.co/m0tYfbwWqY" target="_blank">https://t.co/m0tYfbwWqY</a> pools, resulting in high… <a href="https://t.co/2Xah6j57ed" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/2Xah6j57ed</a></p>— Beosin Alert (@BeosinAlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeosinAlert/status/1722065682677072126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 8, 2023</a>
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<p>He then issued an instant loan for 27,255 WETH (more than $51 million), changed the price balance in the WETH/WBTC pool, and conducted an arbitrage transaction through a bot.</p> 
<p>The hacker exchanged 1339.8 WETH for 6.95 WBTC at the new rate. He then repaid the loan. The damage from his operations reached about $2 million.</p> 
<p>Previously, an unknown liquidity provider <a href="https://crypto.news/uniswap-user-lost-700k-after-amid-liquidity-pool-error/">lost</a> more than $700,000 due to the actions of the MEV bot. User (0x568) created a WBTC-CRV liquidity pool on the Uniswap v3 platform. He then deposited $1.56 million worth of wrapped bitcoins into it.&nbsp;When setting up, he mixed up the CRV rate. The user set $1 instead of $0.5.</p> 
<p> You might also like: <a href="https://crypto.news/anonymous-mev-bot-operator-refunds-70k-in-eth-from-curve-finance-attack/"> Anonymous MEV bot operator refunds $70k in ETH from Curve Finance attack </a> </p>

MEV bot in Curve Finance pool lost $2m following hack

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