Ethereum Staking Crisis Uncovered! Security Vulnerability Impacts Numic, the Ethereum Node Operator of Lido DAO

On May 14th, contributors of Lido DAO discovered a security vulnerability that affected active node operators (Numic) using the Lido protocol. The security vulnerability occurred a few days ago and affected a developer machine that had access to the mainnet validator’s encrypted key backups. It is currently unclear whether these encrypted keys were obtained, copied, or manipulated in any other way. It is also uncertain whether the decryption material for this data has been found or if the encryption has been compromised.