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Defrost

Dec 24, 2022

$12.0M
Lost
$12.0M
Recovered
$6.0M
Net loss
$6.0M
Majority50% recovered

On December 24, 2022, Defrost Finance on Avalanche suffered two coordinated attacks: V2 flashloan drained $173K via LSWUSDC price manipulation; V1 admin key compromise allowed minting 100M H20 and draining ~$12M USDT via fake oracle. All funds were later returned.

How the exploit worked

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Reentrancy.

Lost: $170k

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
DeFi
Classification
Key Compromise
Technique
Private Key Compromised
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Avalanche

Event timeline

  1. Dec 24, 2022
    Exploit executed — $12.0M drained via private key compromised
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Majority 50%

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