Stake DAO hacker nets just $91K from 5.4T token mint

A hacker who gained access to the private key of a deployer for the crypto liquidity staking platform Stake DAO (SDT) minted 5.4 trillion vsdCRV tokens without authorization. However, the attacker was only able to cash out $91,000 from the exploit due to insufficient liquidity to absorb the massive sell order, Cointelegraph reported. The incident stemmed from a failure in operational security rather than a flaw in the smart contract, as the theft of a single deployer key allowed the unauthorized minting to occur in just 25 seconds.