VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
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
Attackers exploited a signature verification vulnerability in the Wormhole network to mint 120k Ether on Solana, worth over $326 million. The hack was made possible by a series of signature verification authorizations, where the developers used a deprecated function to enable unverified forged signature passes. Attack method (per SlowMist): Contract Vulnerability. Reported loss: 120,000 ETH.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- solana
- protocol
- Wormhole
- bug_class
- logic
- date_occurred
- 2022-02-02
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:wormhole::2022-02-02
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