Fantom Foundation awards $1.7M bounty for preventing $170M drain

In the aftermath of Fantom’s $550,000 hack in October, a security researcher found that the attacker could have stolen as much as $170 million.
Source: Fantom Foundation awards $1.7M bounty for preventing $170M drain (https://cointelegraph.com/news/fantom-bounty-preventing-170-million-loss)
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