{"id":464047,"date":"2025-02-03T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=464047"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:09:06","slug":"kyberswap-exploiter-gets-five-count-criminal-indictment-after-stealing-65m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kyberswap-exploiter-gets-five-count-criminal-indictment-after-stealing-65m\/","title":{"rendered":"KyberSwap exploiter gets five-count criminal indictment after stealing $65M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A federal court in New York<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes\">unsealed<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Feb. 3 a five-count criminal indictment against Andean Medjedovic for allegedly exploiting KyberSwap and Indexed Finance to steal $65 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Medjedovic has not been apprehended by law authorities as of Feb. 3 and remains at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a statement from the US Department of Justice, Medjedovic faces charges of wire fraud, unauthorized damage to a protected computer, attempted Hobbs Act extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The charge of unauthorized damage to a protected computer carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, while the other counts carry a potential 20-year sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Court documents state that Medjedovic allegedly exploited automated smart contracts in the KyberSwap and Indexed Finance protocols between 2021 and 2023.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medjedovic is accused of borrowing tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate smart contract calculations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This strategy allegedly allowed him to withdraw funds at artificial prices, rendering investors' holdings worthless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities alleged that Medjedovic laundered the proceeds through swaps, bridging transactions, and crypto mixers.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is also accused of conspiring with others to open accounts at crypto exchanges using false and borrowed identities to obscure the funds' origins.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The exploits<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November 2023, after executing the KyberSwap exploit and draining roughly $49 million, Medjedovic allegedly attempted to extort the victims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kyberswap-hacker-demands-full-control-over-the-dex-at-fair-valuation\/\">proposed a settlement<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which he would gain control of the KyberSwap protocol and it's governing decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) in exchange for returning half of the stolen assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2023, KyberSwap<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kyberswap-commits-to-covering-user-losses-from-recent-exploit\/\">committed to reimbursing<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> affected users, offering grants from its treasury equal to the dollar value the user lost when the protocol's liquidity pools were drained.\u00a0<\/span>The program became effective on Feb. 1, 2024, with KyberSwap <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KyberNetwork\/status\/1886258729508831569\">announcing<\/a> that 1,371 users were refunded on Feb. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incident also affected the decentralized exchange aggregator, which<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/kyberswap-cuts-staff-by-50-after-54m-exploit\/\">cut its workforce in half<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> later that month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medjedovic is also the alleged perpetrator of Indexed Finance's exploit taking place in 2021. Two of the protocol's decentralized indexes<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ndxfi.medium.com\/indexed-attack-post-mortem-b006094f0bdc\">were exploited<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while rebalancing, resulting in losses totaling $16 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both protocols have yet to recover their total value locked (TVL) on the protocols following the security breaches.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court in New York unsealed on Feb. 3 a five-count criminal indictment against Andean Medjedovic for allegedly exploiting KyberSwap and Indexed Finance to steal $65 million. Medjedovic has not been apprehended by law authorities as of Feb. 3 and remains at large. 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