Golden Finance reported that the decentralized exchange (DEX) Clipper clarified that there was a vulnerability in its withdrawal function, which led to the recent hacking of its protocol and the loss amounted to US$450,000, and it was not the private key mentioned by the "third party" Give way. Clipper said in a Dec. 1 X post that the attackers took advantage of two liquidity pools on Dec. 1, locking up about 6% of the total value. It added that no other pools were affected and the breach has been closed. "There are third-party claims of a private key leak. We can confirm that this is not the case and is inconsistent with Clipper's design and security architecture," Clipper wrote.