Jump Crypto has just made an announcement pertaining to the Wormhole protocol hacker. The Chicago-based has confirmed that it has successfully recovered a huge amount of funds from the particular exploit.

Jump Crypto was responsible for the development of Wormhole, which is a major decentralized finance (DeFi) project.

Jump Trading’s cryptocurrency arm, Jump Crypto had been after the hackers who carried out the exploit on the Wormhole protocol.

Jump Crypto Recovered $140 Million

As per the officials at Jump Crypto, their efforts have finally turned fruitful and they have been able to retrieve a huge volume of funds from the hackers.

The teams had been trying to track and trace the hackers of the Wormhole protocol. Their efforts have finally turned fruitful and they have been able to recover $140 million from the hackers.

As communicated by the officials, the funds have been recovered in the form of cryptocurrency assets.

A Joint Effort

The Jump Crypto teams took it to their blog to share a post about their achievement.

They thanked the teams at the Oasis who helped them throughout the process and assisted them in retrieving funds from the hackers.

The Jump Crypto teams confirmed that they were working alongside the representatives from the Oasis to resolve the issue.

Oasis is a company that is responsible for the development of wallet software that offers multi-signature technology.

As they continued investigating and trying to get the funds back, they were able to retrieve certain cryptocurrency assets and tokens.

The hackers who carried out the Wormhole exploit had used the wallet addresses belonging to Oasis. Therefore, both entities worked together to carry out an extensive investigation and retrieve the funds.

Given the funds belonged to the users, their first priority was to retrieve the funds and then go for the next priority. Their next priority was to identify the hackers and report them to the relevant authorities.

Claim by Oasis

While Jump Crypto was clear about their contribution to the matter, the Oasis tried keeping the identity hidden for their helper, which was apparently, Jump Crypto.

Oasis claimed that they were supported by a Whitehat group, which vowed to help them to get to the bottom of the matter.

It did not reveal that Jump Crypto was the firm behind the investigation and it helped recover the funds while providing full support.

They successfully traced back the exploiters and dealt with the situation. They were able to get the funds back from the hackers in the process.

Announcement by Oasis

It was back on February 21, when Oasis made an announcement pertaining to the exploited funds.

It revealed that the High Court of Wales and England had issued an order for them pertaining to the funds. The order was to deal with the matter and retrieve the funds as quickly as possible.

The court had ordered them to take the necessary steps and bring the cryptocurrency assets back from the hackers.

As the DeFi platform suffered the hack, they were eager to find a solution to the problem. This is when Jump Crypto reached out to them and it had the plan to get the funds back.

They laid out the entire Proof of Concept that would help them deal with the situation and let them achieve what they wanted.

They were finally able to retrieve the funds from the hackers, which is a very significant thing. It has bolstered the confidence of other crypto firms that they can also retrieve funds if they work together.

The Hack was Carried Out in Early 2022

It was early 2022 when the hackers reportedly carried out the hack.

They had exploited the Wormhole protocol and stole $321 million worth of cryptocurrencies. According to the collected data, the hackers were able to steal away 120,000 ETH tokens.

The entire crypto industry suffered almost $4 billion worth of frauds and exploits in 2022. The hack faced by the Wormhole protocol ended up contributing to the amount of $321 million.