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
The attacker launched a 51% attack through the rental power, and the exchanges such as Gate.io, Yobit, and Bitrue were affected, and after a week, the attacker returned all the ETC. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: 219,500 ETC.
Primary source
https://medium.com/@slowmist/the-analysis-of-etc-51-attack-from-slowmist-team-728596d76ead ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- ETC
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2019-01-06
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:etc::2019-01-06
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