According to TechFlow, on October 5, EigenLayer officially released an announcement on the social platform X, saying that a hacker attack against a single investor occurred that morning. The hacker successfully hijacked the investor's email communication about the transfer of vested tokens and replaced the receiving address.

The attack resulted in 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens being mistakenly transferred to an address controlled by the hacker. The hacker then sold the stolen tokens through a decentralized trading platform and transferred the resulting stablecoins to a centralized exchange. EigenLayer said it is working with relevant trading platforms and law enforcement agencies, and some funds have been successfully frozen.

The official emphasized that the attack was an isolated incident targeting a single investor and did not affect the EigenLayer protocol itself. There were no vulnerabilities in the protocol and token contracts.