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Incident · SLOWMIST

Aark Digital

Incorrect Balance Update
Estimated loss
$1.90M
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

During a routine GM token burn, Aark Digital encountered a callback error due to a third-party contract modification. To resolve this, Aark Digital initiated a contract upgrade and GM delisting to adjust affected user balances. Users holding GM were required to convert GM to USDC. Aark Digital ran a script to process these conversions, receiving inputs like target user, amount, token address, and decimals from event data. While executing, a single user’s USD Value shifted erroneously from 0.498942 to 498,942 * (10 ^ 12), due to an incorrect balance update (not from a deployed contract error). Exploiting this security vulnerability, the attacker caused Aark Digital a loss of 1,499,841 USDC and 159.09 ETH. Attack method (per SlowMist): Incorrect Balance Update. Reported loss: $ 1,900,000.

Primary source
https://aarkdigital.medium.com/incident-of-october-25th-d074f32d6535
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Aark Digital
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2024-10-25
loss_usd
$1,900,000
source_id
sm:aark-digital::2024-10-25
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