Security firm CertiK has flagged a suspicious transaction that drained roughly $2.19 million from the Aztec Connect Router contract, with the attacker’s wallet identified as 0x0f18d8b44a740272f0be4d08338d2b165b7edd17. The protocol in question was shut down three years ago, but the contracts were still sitting on-chain, and the funds inside them were still there. Aztec Connect was A Privacy Rollup To understand what happened here, some context matters. Aztec Connect was a privacy-focused zkRollup built on Ethereum, designed to allow users to interact with DeFi protocols with a degree of on-chain anonymity. It was a real product with real users but Aztec Labs
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