VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is infrastructure (DNS / cloud / database / third-party API) compromise, not on-chain contract logic. Pre-deployment source review would not surface this; coverage lives in cloud-security + supply-chain audit, separate discipline.
▰ METHOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
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 last repair was bypassed, resulting in another 51% attack and a loss of approximately US$4.82 million. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: $ 4,820,000.
Primary source
https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1197040 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Verge
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2018-05-29
- loss_usd
- $4,820,000
- source_id
- sm:verge::2018-05-29
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