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The original was posted on /r/cryptocurrency by /u/dark_deadline on 2023-10-17 17:44:13.

Some hours ago one of the fantom admin announced on their telegram group some of the wallets of fantom foundation got drained by the ‘zero day’ exploit on chrome and hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen from them.

So what is zero day exploit? ‘Zero day’ is a broad term that describes recently discovered security vulnerabilities that hackers can use to attack systems. The term “zero-day” refers to the fact that the vendor or developer has only just learned of the flaw – which means they have “zero days” to fix it. A zero-day attack takes place when hackers exploit the flaw before developers have a chance to address it.

The admin later revealed that there system wasn’t updated to the latest version of chrome which caused the exploit.