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Incident · SLOWMIST

Poly Network

Permission Stolen
Estimated loss
$613.06M
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.

▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2021-08/PolyNetwork_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗

Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.

Forensic narrative

Poly Network, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, said it was attacked, and a total of more than 610 million US dollars were transferred to 3 addresses. Among them, the funds transferred to Binance smart chain addresses starting with 0x0D6e2 exceeded 250 million US dollars, and they were transferred to the ether starting with 0xC8a65. There are over 270 million U.S. dollars in workshop addresses, and over 85 million U.S. dollars in transfers to Polygon addresses. Affected by this, the large amount of assets in the O3 Swap cross-chain pool was transferred out, and the official is investigating.With the efforts of many parties, the hackers have now returned tokens worth 342 million U.S. dollars. Attack method (per SlowMist): Permission Stolen. Reported loss: $ 613,062,100.7.

Primary source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Network_exploit
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
bsc
protocol
Poly Network
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2021-08-10
loss_usd
$613,062,101
source_id
sm:poly-network::2021-08-10
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