Artela

Account Compromise

Estimated loss

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VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE

Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.

▰ METHOD

PRIVATE KEY

PRIVATE-KEY

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

The parallel-execution EVM public chain Artela announced on the X platform that their official Discord was hacked today. The attacker took control of the Discord channel and spread fake airdrop messages. The team took immediate action, removed the fraudulent posts, and the Discord has now been restored. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://x.com/Artela_Network/status/1827174784020733978 ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record