šThieves eating thieves? Just stole $500k USDC⦠MEV bot snatched $320k of it for only $0.03!
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Base# user got phished and lost ~$500k USDC. The attacker immediately tried to swap the loot into WETH ā but forgot to set any slippage protection. The trade got routed straight into a low-liquidity #
Uniswap# V4 WETH/USDC pool (PoolId:0x1d8c55f347727c0fb4f5e1b65cdb93639e0c7102580a7d345e1144cd5a718f54).
Result: $500k USDC ā only 67.9 WETH (~$129k).
~$370k vanished to extreme slippage⦠and an MEV bot scooped most of it (~$320k).
šThe wild part? The bot only needed $0.03 in capital for the arb, but paid a juicy 3.5 ETH in gas.
The victim already sent on-chain messages to both the attacker and the MEV address, offering a 10% bounty for the return of the funds.
Victim: 0x3a5385D8eB0d05B006edFF978BA4b95c51F70B5c
Attacker: 0x920d3b63541eAFe13E05dc4f3453904102c39708
MEV bot: 0x0000208D547A446BA9059CbB2CfcfbAEAd7d3fA3
Attack tx: