Bitfinex CTO: Hackers once attempted to launch a "partial payment exploitation" attack on large amounts of XRP, but the platform has correctly identified and blocked it

Bitfinex Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino said that a transaction purportedly worth nearly $15 billion worth of XRP transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex on January 14 was not actually completed and was a failed "partial payment" In the exploit attempt, the attacker expected that Bitfinex had misconfigured its software to handle deposit recording. It is reported that the "partial payment exploit" works by assuming that the company has an improperly configured system that only reads the amount field of the XRP transaction (which will be set to a higher amount), but in fact the attacker will only Send a smaller amount and try to profit from the difference through the company's erroneous record. Ardoino noted that the attack failed because Bitfinex correctly handled the delivered_amount data field.