Leaderboard
707All-time rank
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LaunchZone

Feb 27, 2023

$700K
Lost
$700K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$700K
Unrecovered0% recovered

On February 27, 2023, LaunchZone on BSC suffered a $700,000 exploit via missing access control on the transferFrom() function in the Bscex SwapX contract. The attacker manipulated LZ token prices and executed arbitrary token transfers from liquidity pools.

How the exploit worked

View reproducible PoC

Access Control.

Lost: ~$320,000

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
DeFi
Classification
Access Control
Technique
Improper Access Control
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
BSC

Event timeline

  1. Feb 27, 2023
    Exploit executed — $700K drained via improper access control
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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