Meta Pool Hacker Drains Just $132,000 In $27 Million Hack

A hacker has managed to make off with only around $132,000 from their attack on the crypto protocol Meta Pool, which created $27 million worth of tokens they could have stolen. The attack was foiled by low liquidity and a pause on the exploited smart contract.

The attacker was able to mint 9,705 of the liquid staking protocol’s token mpETH worth nearly $27 million, but only managed to steal around 52.5 Ether (ETH), worth just over $132,000 from the liquidity swap pools, Meta Pool said in a blog post on Tuesday. 

It added that some of the affected…