VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.
▰ METHOD
PRIVATE KEY
PRIVATE-KEY
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
A crook named "cryptopunksbot" was published on CryptoPunk's Discord server, providing NFT investors with the opportunity to win ten elusive NFT avatars. Stazie, the co-founder of the NFT game project Hedgie, accepted the false offer poster, but this move eventually cost him 16 CryptoPunks, which may be worth at least $1 million. Stazie inadvertently sent the wallet seed phrase to the scammer, resulting in the loss of some ETH. The scammer sold 5 CryptoPunks for 149 ETH ($385,000). Attack method (per SlowMist): Phishing attack. Reported loss: $ 1,000,000.
Primary source
https://decrypt.co/77404/founder-of-nft-game-loses-16-cryptopunks-and-bunch-of-eth-to-scammer ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Stazie
- bug_class
- private-key
- date_occurred
- 2021-08-02
- loss_usd
- $1,000,000
- source_id
- sm:stazie::2021-08-02
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