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Ronin Bridge

Aug 6, 2024

$12.0M
Lost
$12.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$12.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered

On August 6, 2024, Ronin Bridge was exploited for $12M (4K ETH + 2M USDC) due to an incomplete contract upgrade. The bridge manager was upgraded to v4, but the v3 initialization function, which set critical voting weights, was never called, leaving _totalOperatorWeight uninitialized and breaking vote-weight validation.

Target
Bridge
Classification
Access Control
Technique
Uninitialized Proxy
Attribution
North Korea
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Aug 6, 2024
    Exploit executed — $12.0M drained via uninitialized proxy
  2. Attributed to North Korea
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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