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
According to a MistTrack tweet, a suspicious outflow was detected from a wallet controlled by the U.S. government (0xc9E...34c): nearly $20 million was transferred to 0x3486ee700ccaf3e2f9c5ec9730a2e916a4740a9f, including: 5.4M USDC, 1.12M USDT, 13.7M aUSDC and 178 ETH. Most tokens were swapped into ETH. Approximately 19.3M worth of tokens were later returned to the U.S. government address. Attack method (per SlowMist): Unknown. Reported loss: $ 20,000,000.
Primary source
https://x.com/MistTrack_io/status/1849663895545462919 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- U.S. Government-Controlled Wallet
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2024-10-25
- loss_usd
- $20,000,000
- source_id
- sm:u-s-government-controlled-wallet::2024-10-25
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