Mango Hacker Gets 4-Year SentenceBut Not for the $110M Exploit
The sentence was handed down in a separate case, after investigators found a vast cache of child sexual abuse material on his devices.
The disturbing discovery was made while authorities were probing Eisenbergs role in a 2022 market manipulation attack on Mango, a decentralized crypto trading platform. Prosecutors say the explicit materialover 1,200 fileshad been collected over a five-year span. Eisenberg ultimately pleaded guilty to possession and received his sentence this week, as reported by Inner City Press.
Meanwhile, the legal fallout from the Mango incident continues. In late 2022, Eisenberg launched a calculated assault on the protocols price mechanics. By inflating the value of MANGO tokens through a large leveraged position, he managed to artificially boost his collateral, which allowed him to borrow and siphon fundsleaving the platform with tens of millions in unrecoverable debt.
The exploit, which some in the DeFi space viewed as a gray-area hack, led to Eisenberg walking away with $47 million after returning $67 million as part of a governance-approved deal. But that didnt stop federal prosecutors from pursuing fraud charges. A jury found him guilty in April 2024 of wire fraud, market manipulation, and commodities fraud, rejecting his defense that the platform was simply used as intended.
While the government had pushed for an eight-year sentence for the broader misconduct, only the child exploitation charges have resulted in a finalized prison term so far.
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