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Convex Finance

Jun 24, 2022

$14K
Lost
$14K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$14K
Unrecovered0% recovered

On June 23, 2022, Convex Finance's DNS was hijacked after a customer support agent at NameCheap was compromised. com to a phishing site with malicious smart contracts mimicking the original addresses.

At least 40 wallet addresses were tricked into approving transactions, though only limited tokens were stolen. Convex reimbursed all affected users from their treasury.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Frontend & Infrastructure
Technique
DNS Hijack
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Jun 24, 2022
    Exploit executed — $14K drained via dns hijack
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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