Dego Finance

Private Key Leakage

Estimated loss

$10.00M

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

Dego Finance, an NFT and DeFi aggregator, announced that it was hacked, and now the DEGO liquidity on UniSwap and PancakeSwap has been exhausted. Attack method (per SlowMist): Private Key Leakage. Reported loss: $ 10,000,000.

Primary source

https://degofinance.medium.com/to-dego-community-summary-of-the-event-after-a-thorough-investigation-and-efforts-5315a98d9984 ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record