Euler Hacker Was ‘Just a Regular Guy’

It was a staggering haul — $200M in assorted cryptocurrencies. But the hacker who drained DeFi protocol Euler last month was “just a regular guy,” according to one of the people who helped negotiate the return of the stolen tokens.

“It’s not always North Korea doing a sophisticated hack,” Ogle, a pseudonymous, independent security researcher, told The Defiant. “Like, it’s often just a curious young person who happens to be clever and sees an opportunity.” And that was the case in the Euler hack, which was the sixth biggest in DeFi history, according to Rekt.

Read more about the case at The Defiant.