Thunder Terminal Got Hacked, 86 ETH and 439 SOL Lost

• On-chain trading platform Thunder Terminal was hacked with 86 ETH and 439 SOL on December 27.
• The exchange reassured customers that neither private keys nor wallets were compromised.
• Hackers demanded 50 ETH, or else they would delete all user data they claimed to possess.

On-chain trading platform Thunder Terminal announced that the funds are safe after the exchange got hacked with 86 ETH and 439 SOL. Hackers, however, claimed that they had all the users’ data and were demanding 50 ETH or else they would delete it. 

On December 27, Thunder shared that at 12:11:47 AM (UTC), suspicious withdrawals started to happen while a malicious actor got access to a MongoDB connection URL. MongoDB is a cloud database provider. The hackers reportedly used the URL to pull session tokens and execute withdrawals on behalf of the trading platform users. 

Thunder claimed that it had managed to stop the malicious act in nine minutes, saying, “At 12:20:35 AM UTC, the last malicious withdrawal happened.” Thunder stated that all session tokens and all kinds of access to transaction signing were revoked for security reasons. 

The exchange reassured customers that neither…

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