Vitalik was recently attacked by the MEV bot sandwich during a small token transaction.

CoinFeed reported on May 8th that, according to CoinDesk, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was sandwiched by the well-known sandwich attack bot jaredfromsubway.eth during a small token transaction on April 30th. On-chain data shows that Buterin exchanged 26,654 XDB tokens (worth approximately $3.86) for approximately 0.00197 ETH (worth approximately $4.56). The bot used approximately $1.14 million worth of WETH to manipulate the XDB price between SushiSwap and Uniswap V2, buying and selling before and after Buterin's transaction. After deducting approximately $5.14 in gas fees, the bot actually lost money in this attack, while Buterin's slippage loss was only a few cents.