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
Starting at around 23:45 on August 3, Beijing time, BSV suffered a “large-scale” 51% attack, resulting in the simultaneous mining of three versions of the chain. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://bitcoinethereumnews.com/economy/bsv-has-been-hit-by-a-major-51-percent-attack/ ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- BSV
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2021-08-03
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:bsv::2021-08-03
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