Solana and Slope Confirm Wallet Security Breach

August 4, 2022

Solana network faced an infringement recently.

The network has confirmed that addresses affected by the security breach were created or used within the Slope wallet.

Slope also published an official statement on the situation, stating that it will provide a full postmortem in the future.

The Solana Foundation and Slope have provided additional information on a security breach that affected thousands of wallets.

Solana confirmed on its Twitter account that the addresses affected by the attack “were at one point created, imported, or used in Slope mobile wallet applications.”

It also added that private key information was accidentally transmitted to an application monitoring service. The further details “are still under investigation.”

Earlier, around 8,000 addresses were drained through a breach of the third-party wallet app Slope.