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Huge ‘screw-up’ — Pump Science apologizes after flood of fraud tokens

Huge ‘screw-up’ — Pump Science apologizes after flood of fraud tokens

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Source: Coin Telegraph

Pump Science partially blamed Solana-based software firm BuilderZ for leaving the private key to the dev wallet address on GitHub for the public to see.

Decentralized science platform Pump Science has apologized to its users after its private key was leaked on GitHub — allowing a “known attacker” to create fraudulent tokens using its Pump.fun profile. 

“We do not want to diminish how much of a screw-up this was, we totally acknowledge that this is a huge issue and misstep on our part,” Pump Science’s Benji Leibowitz said in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session hosted on X on Nov. 27.

“This absolutely will not happen again,” he said, adding:

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Author: Brayden Lindrea