Echelon’s official website restored; unauthorized modification at domain registrar confirmed
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Echelon said its official website and domain resolution had been restored; the incident involved an unauthorized DNS change, and the smart contracts were not compromised.
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Echelon: Official website restored; smart contracts were not compromised
PANews November 1 reported that Echelon released an update on the domain security incident. Access to the official website has been fully restored, and domain resolution has returned to normal. An investigation confirmed that the incident was caused by an unauthorized nameserver change at the domain registrar level. Echelon’s domain is managed through Vercel, while Name.com is the registrar for the domain. The nameservers were changed without authorization from Vercel’s DNS configuration to Name.com’s DNS servers, causing visitors to be redirected to an unauthorized phishing clone of the Echelon website. The issue was limited to the domain registrar and DNS configuration levels; Echelon’s smart contracts were not compromised.
Echelon said access to its official website had been fully restored, and domain resolution had returned to normal.
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An investigation confirmed that the incident was caused by an unauthorized nameserver change at the domain registrar level.
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The domain is managed through Vercel, while Name.com is the registrar for the domain.
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The nameservers were changed from Vercel’s DNS configuration to Name.com’s DNS servers.
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Visitors were redirected to an unauthorized phishing clone of the Echelon website.
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Echelon said the incident was limited to the domain registrar and DNS configuration levels, and that the smart contracts were not compromised.
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This incident affected the website domain and DNS settings, not the smart contracts themselves. The unauthorized change redirected visitors to a phishing clone page; access to the official website and domain resolution have now been restored.
Why it matters to readers
The phishing clone page may have misled visitors, but available information indicates that the smart contracts were not compromised.
If you visited the anomalous page, do not submit credentials or conduct transactions; current evidence does not indicate whether any users suffered asset or credential losses as a result.
Risks and unknowns
The evidence does not indicate whether any users suffered asset or credential losses from the phishing clone page.
The evidence does not indicate whether the unauthorized domain change has been completely blocked.
The evidence does not indicate whether Echelon has announced further domain security hardening measures.
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