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Incident · SLOWMIST

BXH

Private Key Leakage
Estimated loss
$2.50M
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.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2022-09/BXH_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

According to the SlowMist security team, according to the BXH Stupid Kids team’s announcement on September 23, a total of $2.5 million worth of assets and 38 million BXH tokens were stolen the night before yesterday (September 21). According to the analysis and evaluation of SlowMist MistTrack, the private key of the original owner of the BXH VaultPool contract is suspected to be stolen, and the inCaseTokensGetStuck function is called to transfer the funds in the contract to the hacker's address. The hacker's address is 0x158f...e345. Up to now, the hacker has exchanged the stolen funds to the ETH chain across the chain, and further transferred all the stolen funds to Tornado Cash, with a total transfer amount of 1865 ETH. Attack method (per SlowMist): Private Key Leakage. Reported loss: $ 2,500,000.

Primary source
https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/4962622
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
BXH
bug_class
private-key
date_occurred
2022-09-21
loss_usd
$2,500,000
source_id
sm:bxh::2022-09-21
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