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
At 00:35 on April 24th, SBF, the co-founder of the FTX exchange, tweeted that the website suffered a small DDOS attack. User funds and core systems will not be affected, only the throughput of API and GUI will be affected. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
http://www.szlllz.com/shangye/kuaixun/34586.html ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- FTX
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2021-04-24
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:ftx::2021-04-24
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