Someone stole the stolen money from ZKLend – Protos
A bizarrely twisted tale unfolded yesterday in crypto’s underworld of decentralized finance (DeFi). The perpetrator of a multi-million dollar heist against a project called ZKLend (short for “zero knowledge proof lending”) subsequently lost those ill-gotten gains to a second phishing scam. The ouroboros started on February 11, 2025 when ZKLend lost 3,600 ether (ETH) to its hackers. Administrators begged them to return the funds and unfortunately, weeks went by with no news. ZKLend announced a $500,000 bounty for the arrest and return of funds, but still no luck. Then, on March 31, an on-chain chat between the hacker “Fake_Phishing927538” and ZKLend’s token deployer account revealed new, devastating news. “I tried to move funds to tornado [cash] but I used a phishing website and all the funds have been lost,” Fake_Phishing927538 wrote to the ZKLend team. “I am devastated. I am terribly sorry for all the havoc and losses caused. All the 2930 eth have bee...