Ben Armstrong

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

ZenGo CEO Ouriel Ohayon tweeted that BitBoy Crypto founder Ben Armstrong's Twitter account was hacked and used to promote a crypto scam to steal users' NFT assets, the same scam that hit garry tan, peter schiff and others, asking users to be aware of the risks involved. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://twitter.com/OurielOhayon/status/1667743998583209985 ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record