Odaily Planet Daily News Chain analyst ZachXBT posted on the X platform that Slope Wallet (founded by Leal Cheung) was hacked in August 2022 and lost US$4 million. After this incident, their entire team disappeared. Many Solana community members confirmed this.
In March and August 2023, hackers began to launder money and collect stolen funds, of which 322 ETH was deposited in Tornado Cash. For some reason, the Slope hackers only transferred the money to one address.
The Slope team took no responsibility for the hack and made little effort to correct the problem, and victims are unlikely to receive their assets back.
It is worth mentioning that Slope founder Leal Cheung created a new project zkMe (aimed at building Web3’s zk-credential layer) immediately after the project was hacked.