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Morning Edition · Wednesday, June 17, 2026Published at 6:30 AM EDT · New York
Attacker Drains Deprecated Thetanuts Vault for $2.1 Million as June DeFi Losses Mount
A redemption-math flaw in an abandoned contract, the latest in a series of exploits including Humanity Protocol's $36 million key compromise, pushes monthly decentralized-finance losses past $46 million.
An attacker drained roughly $2.1 million from a deprecated Thetanuts Finance vault on Ethereum on June 15, in an exploit now reproduced in the DeFiHackLabs proof-of-concept repository. The root cause was a logic flaw in the vault's share-pr…
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