Gala Games Receives $22 Million in ETH from Perpetrator of Security Breach
Blockchain gaming platform Gala Games has retrieved approximately $22 million worth of Ether (ETH) from the individual responsible for a recent “security incident.”
The incident occurred on May 20 when the attacker minted Gala (GALA) tokens worth $200 million and sold a small portion of them before the wallet was frozen.
On Tuesday, the attacker’s wallet returned 5913.2 ETH, equivalent to $22.3 million, to Gala Games.
Gala Games credited the swift recovery to their effective response and the involvement of federal law enforcement agencies, as stated in a blog post published on the same day.
Gala Games employed GalaChain’s blocklist protocol feature, allowing them to freeze 4.4 billion GALA tokens out of the 5 billion minted within a mere 45 minutes.
The measure helped mitigate the impact of the security breach.
Not at my computer so I can't confirm the address, but it looks like the $GALA exploiter has just returned the ETH they got from the hack! https://t.co/IfnfcQTlqL
— Jason Brink aka BitBender (@BitBenderBrink) May 21, 2024
Although Gala Games has not publicly disclosed the identity or method employed by the attacker, certain community members suggest that Gala had hinted at the involvement of a security contractor who made a mistake by accessing the wallet without using a VPN.
Eric Schiermeyer, co-founder and CEO of Gala Games, shared in a Discord post that the team intends to repurchase the equivalent GALA tokens using the returned ETH and then burn them.
The approach aims to address the aftermath of the incident and ensure the security of the Gala ecosystem.
Furthermore, Gala Games announced the initiation of a governance vote to determine whether the blocklisted 4.4 billion GALA tokens will be considered “burned,”
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