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$3M NEAR tokens lost post Skyward Finance hack

It seems like ‘Hacktober’s’ energy has been passed on to November as well. Just as the entire community was waiting to see volatility spur up following the FOMC meeting, NEAR Protocol’s Skyward finance encountered a rather expensive attack. It was brought to light that Skyward Finance, a platform that looks into token distribution for projects on the NEAR protocol was hit with a $3 million attack. About 1.1 million NEAR tokens were reportedly drained from the project. The attack was noticed by an individual who goes by Near Scout who alerted the community about the same. Ref Fund, a community-led multi-purpose DeFi platform built on the NEAR Protocol, and the Skyward team have reportedly been informed of the drain. Here’s how the hack occurred. I'm not a dev though, but looking at txn it seems he passed multiple arguments in a single txn. so for every extra passed value, he got extra redemption without having SKYWARD Tokens. Please correct me i...