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Incident · CHAINSEC

pNetwork

Exploit
Estimated loss
$12.00M
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

An unidentified hacker has stolen 277 wrapped Bitcoin, currently worth around $12.5 million, by exploiting a bug in decentralized finance (DeFi) interoperability protocol pNetwork, its developers disclosed on Sunday. Reported loss: $12,000,000.

Primary source
https://decrypt.co/81301/defi-bridging-protocol-pnetwork-suffers-12-million-hack
Sourced from
chainsec
Technical record
chain
bitcoin
protocol
pNetwork
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2021-09-20
loss_usd
$12,000,000
source_id
cs:pnetwork::2021-09-20
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