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Incident · CHAINSEC

Force DAO

Exploit
Estimated loss
$376.0K
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
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

According to a chain of tweets by Mudit Gupta, blockchain team lead at blockchain software company Polymath, there were five attackers, one of whom later returned his share of the stolen funds. The others, however, made off with FORCE tokens worth about US$376,000. Reported loss: $376,000.

Primary source
https://www.coindesk.com/defi-hedge-fund-force-dao-attacked-force-token-plunges
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Technical record
chain
protocol
Force DAO
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2021-04-04
loss_usd
$376,000
source_id
cs:force-dao::2021-04-04
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