{"id":31187,"date":"2022-08-06T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/more-crypto-wallets-are-being-hacked-and-drained\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:49:46","slug":"more-crypto-wallets-are-being-hacked-and-drained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/more-crypto-wallets-are-being-hacked-and-drained\/","title":{"rendered":"More crypto wallets are being hacked and drained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: vjkombajn\/Pixabay) The summer of 2022 is continuing to be a bit of a nightmare for cryptocurrency users after yet another hack resulted in the theft of at least $4 million worth of tokens.This time around, it\u2019s not a blockchain bridge that\u2019s been compromised, but rather the Solana ecosystem. Solana is a blockchain similar to Ethereum and has been often described as the Ethereum killer. However someone started draining the tokens from thousands of wallets &#8211; with more than 8,000 wallets now thought to be affected.\u00a0\u201cOver 8,000 #Solana wallets have fallen victim to the on-going hack, with more increasing by the minute,\u201d reported crypto analysts WatcherGuru on Twitter (opens in new tab). 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