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
Hacker exploited the data overflow to attack the smart contract of BeautyChain, successfully transferred the BEC token to the two addresses resulted in the massive BEC being sold in the market, and the value of the digital currency was almost zero, which brought a crushing blow to BEC market. Attack method (per SlowMist): Overflow. Reported loss: $ 1,000,000,000.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- BeautyChain
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2018-04-22
- loss_usd
- $1,000,000,000
- source_id
- sm:beautychain::2018-04-22
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