Over 8,000 Solana wallets have been emptied from an on-going hack with more increasing by the minute.

According to @SolanaStatus on twitter hardware wallet users are safe, with empty wallets under investigation.

Engineers from multiple ecosystems, with the help of several security firms, are investigating drained wallets on Solana. There is no evidence hardware wallets are impacted.

This thread will be updated as new information becomes available.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) August 3, 2022

Solana Status on Twitter

An exploit allowed a malicious actor to drain funds from a number of wallets on Solana. As of 5am UTC approximately 7,767 wallets have been affected.

The exploit has affected several wallets, including Slope and Phantom. This appears to have affected both mobile and extension.
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) August 3, 2022

Solana Status on Twitter

The Solana team alongside security researchers are still searching for the root cause of the exploit, which is still unknown to this hour.

There is an active security incident on Solana. Many (7000+ and counting) wallets are drained of SOL & USDC. Don't know root cause yet. Maybe permissions granted to apps. For remediation, send the funds to a cold wallet or CEX like @Binance. https://t.co/nQrBXAgCbf
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) August 3, 2022

Changpeng Zhao CEO of Binance on Twitter

Changpeng Zhao of Binance indicated that Solana users should move their funds into cold storage or a centralized exchange like Binance.

SolanaStatus confirmed that affected addresses were once created, imported, or used in Slope mobile wallet application.

Hardware wallet users using Slope were not affected.

There is currently no evidence of compromise on the Solana protocol and cryptography.

This hack appears to be limited to Slope mobile wallet users only.

Over 8,000 Solana wallets fall victim to On-going Hack