The transfer of $15 billion in XRP to Bitfinex turned out to be a failed exploit

The alleged XRP transaction worth almost $15 billion from an unknown wallet on Bitfinex was part of a failed partial payment exploit attempt. This was stated by the CTO of the exchange Paolo Arduino.The exploit assumes that in the case of a partial payment, the system calculates the amount from the Amount field, and should — from delivered_amount, which indicates the actual amount of the transfer.

Arduino noted that Bitfinex has the field processing set up correctly.

According to the blockchain explorer, an unknown person also tried to attack Binance with the transfer of 58.9 billion XP. The actual transaction amount was 0.0017 XRP.