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
The WLEO contract of the Ethereum project was hacked, resulting in the theft of $42,000 worth of funds. The hackers stole Ethereum from the pool of the decentralized exchange Uniswap by casting WLEO to themselves and replacing it with Ethereum. Attack method (per SlowMist): Casting WLEO. Reported loss: $ 42,000.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- ethereum
- protocol
- WLEO
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2020-10-11
- loss_usd
- $42,000
- source_id
- sm:wleo::2020-10-11
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