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
Cross Chain Multisig Deployment Exploit
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
Classification: Infrastructure. Technique: Cross Chain Multisig Deployment Exploit. Target type: DeFi Protocol. Affected chains: Optimism.
Sourced from
DefiLlama Hacks dataset · api.llama.fi/hacks
Technical record
- chain
- optimism
- protocol
- Wintermute
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2022-06-05
- loss_usd
- $27,600,000
- classification
- Infrastructure
- technique
- Cross Chain Multisig Deployment Exploit
- target_type
- DeFi Protocol
- source_id
- dl:adhoc:wintermute:1654387200
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