VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
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
THORChain (RUNE), a decentralized cross-chain transaction protocol, said it was attacked again, and many ERC20 tokens including XRUNE were affected. This attack targeted ETH routing and lost 8 million U.S. dollars. The attacker "intentionally limited the impact of the attack, which seems to be done by a white hat." Attack method (per SlowMist): Logic Vulnerability. Reported loss: $ 8,000,000.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- THORChain
- bug_class
- logic
- date_occurred
- 2021-07-23
- loss_usd
- $8,000,000
- source_id
- sm:thorchain::2021-07-23
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