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
Vertcoin suffered a major attack in which hackers stole funds worth $100,000. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: $ 100,000.
Primary source
https://medium.com/coinmonks/vertcoin-vtc-is-currently-being-51-attacked-53ab633c08a4 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Vertcoin
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2018-12-12
- loss_usd
- $100,000
- source_id
- sm:vertcoin::2018-12-12
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