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Jan 28, 2022

$80.0M
Lost
$80.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$80.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered

On January 27-28, 2022 an attacker drained $80 million from Qubit Finance's QBridge cross-chain bridge by calling the deposit function with a zero address token and no ETH, exploiting improper use of call() instead of SafeERC20 verification to bypass input validation. 5M in BTC-B, and stablecoins.

How the exploit worked

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safeTransferFrom() does not revert.

Lost: $80 million

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
Bridge
Classification
Input Validation
Technique
Missing Input Validation
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
BSC

Event timeline

  1. Jan 28, 2022
    Exploit executed — $80.0M drained via missing input validation
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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