Wintermute

Operational Mistake

Estimated loss

$160.00M

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

@EvgenyGaevoy, founder and CEO of crypto market maker Wintermute tweeted that Wintermute lost $160 million in DeFi hacking attacks. Wintermute used Profanity to create a wallet in order to optimize fees. Funds from old address were transferred, but due to internal (human) error, wrong function was called and attacked. Attack method (per SlowMist): Operational Mistake. Reported loss: $ 160,000,000.

Primary source

https://twitter.com/EvgenyGaevoy/status/1572329148411936770 ↗

Sourced from

slowmist

Technical record