VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is infrastructure (DNS / cloud / database / third-party API) compromise, not on-chain contract logic. Pre-deployment source review would not surface this; coverage lives in cloud-security + supply-chain audit, separate discipline.
▰ METHOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
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
According to a report by Finder on November 12, AurumCoin (AU), a new digital currency based on the monetary gold standard system (the US dollar operation method), has recently suffered a 51% attack and lost 15,752.26 Australian dollars (approximately 11,362 US dollars). Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: $ 11,362.
Primary source
https://nulltx.com/aurumcoin-claims-cryptopia-refutes-a-51-attack-resulting-in-lost-funds/ ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- AurumCoin
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2018-11-12
- loss_usd
- $11,362
- source_id
- sm:aurumcoin::2018-11-12
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