U.S. authorities confiscate $31M in crypto linked to 2021 Uranium Finance exploit

The Southern District of New York (SDNY) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Diego have seized roughly $31 million in cryptocurrency connected to the 2021 hack of Uranium Finance, according to CoinDesk. Uranium Finance was an automated market maker on the Binance BNB chain (previously known as Binance Smart Chain). In April 2021, a cybercriminal exploited a vulnerability in Uranium’s pair contracts, resulting in the theft of $50 million in crypto.