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← back to feed·INFRASTRUCTURE2020-12-05 · 5y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

Poloniex

DDoS Attack
Estimated loss
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 cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex issued an announcement stating that since December 5th at 6:30 UTC (14:30 Beijing time), its service was interrupted due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. At present, Poloniex has resumed normal trading, and user funds have not suffered any loss. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.

Primary source
https://support.poloniex.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500000118862
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Poloniex
bug_class
infrastructure
date_occurred
2020-12-05
loss_usd
source_id
sm:poloniex::2020-12-05
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