VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is a frontend / UI hijack — users authorized the malicious transaction from a compromised site or DNS. On-chain contract was not the failure surface; pre-deployment audit cannot catch this class.
▰ METHOD
Frontend Attack
FRONTEND
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
Classification: Protocol Logic. Technique: Frontend Attack. Target type: ICO. Affected chains: Ethereum.
Sourced from
DefiLlama Hacks dataset · api.llama.fi/hacks
Technical record
- chain
- ethereum
- protocol
- CoinDash
- bug_class
- frontend
- date_occurred
- 2017-07-18
- loss_usd
- $7,700,000
- classification
- Protocol Logic
- technique
- Frontend Attack
- target_type
- ICO
- source_id
- dl:adhoc:coindash:1500336000
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