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
The SushiSwap decentralized exchange has narrowly avoided becoming the latest decentralized finance hack victim thanks to assistance from a white hat hacker. A security researcher from venture capital firm Paradigm, known on Twitter as Samczsun, has managed to save SushiSwap and its Miso platform from a potential loss of as much as 109,000 Ether (ETH).
Primary source
https://cointelegraph.com/news/white-hat-potentially-saves-sushiswap-350m-by-finding-obvious-exploit ↗Sourced from
chainsec
Technical record
- chain
- ethereum
- protocol
- Sushi
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2021-09-16
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- cs:sushi::2021-09-16
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