VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is phishing — victims signed malicious transactions or approvals off-protocol. Contract logic was not the failure surface; user-side wallet hygiene was. Pre-deployment audit cannot catch this class.
▰ METHOD
PHISHING
PHISHING
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
Electrum suffers from "Update Phishing" theft. (The "Update Phishing" attack continues, and the older version (less than 3.3.4) is still under threat.) Attack method (per SlowMist): Phishing attack. Reported loss: 2,000 BTC.
Primary source
https://www.8btc.com/article/335983 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Electrum
- bug_class
- phishing
- date_occurred
- 2020-01-19
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:electrum::2020-01-19
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