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
The NFT project Monkey Kindom stated that hackers stole $1.3 million in SOL from the community through a security breach in discord. The hacker first attacked Grape, the solution to authenticate users on Solana, and took advantage of the vulnerability to take over an administrative account that posted a phishing link in the announcement channel of Monkey Kindom discord. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: $ 1,300,000.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- solana
- protocol
- Monkey Kindom
- bug_class
- phishing
- date_occurred
- 2021-12-23
- loss_usd
- $1,300,000
- source_id
- sm:monkey-kindom::2021-12-23
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