Wilder World

Private Key Leakage

Estimated loss

$1.80M

VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE

Root cause is private-key / signer compromise — the on-chain contract behaved exactly as written. No pre-deployment source audit or bytecode review reaches the key-custody perimeter; this is operational-security territory (HSM/MPC hygiene, key rotation, hot-wallet isolation). Bytecode would show nothing wrong.

▰ METHOD

PRIVATE KEY

PRIVATE-KEY

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 deployer wallet of the NFT marketplace Wilder World was attacked, and ownership was transferred to the attacker. Following a malicious upgrade, the attacker withdrew WILD and MEOW tokens and converted them into approximately $1.8 million. Attack method (per SlowMist): Private Key Leakage. Reported loss: $ 1,800,000.

Primary source

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=wilder-world-theft ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record