Bitfinex CTO: Previous large-scale XRP "partial payment exploitation" attacks on the platform were unsuccessful

BlockBeats news, on January 15, according to Cointelegraph, Bitfinex Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino stated that a transaction purportedly worth nearly $15 billion in XRP transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex on January 14 was not actually Not completed, but a failed "partial payment utilization" attempt. An attempt was made to attack Bitfinex via a "partial payment exploit," in which the attackers expected that the exchange had misconfigured its software to handle partial payments. The partial payment exploit works by assuming that the company has a poorly configured system that only reads the "amount" field of the XRP transaction, which is set to a higher amount. In effect, the attacker sends a much smaller amount, as specified in another transaction field, and aims to obtain credit from the company for the difference. Ardoino noted that the attack failed because “Bitfinex correctly processed the ‘delivered_amount’ data field.