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Incident · CHAINSEC

Audius

Exploit
Estimated loss
$6.10M
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.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2022-07/Audius_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

Proposals in crypto help communities make consensus-based decisions. However, for decentralized music platform Audius, the passing of a malicious governance proposal resulted in the transfer of tokens worth $6.1 million, with the hacker making away with $1 million. Reported loss: $6,100,000.

Primary source
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hacker-drains-1-08m-from-audius-following-passing-of-malicious-proposal
Sourced from
chainsec
Technical record
chain
protocol
Audius
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2022-07-24
loss_usd
$6,100,000
source_id
cs:audius::2022-07-24
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