Axie Infinity

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

Axie Infinity says the Mee6 bot on its main server was hacked. Hackers use Mee6 bot to add permissions to fake Jiho account to post fake announcements about mint. MEE6 is a Discord bot that allows admins to automatically assign and remove roles and send messages. The fake announcement has now been removed. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity/status/1526760612419837954 ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record