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Safemoon

Mar 28, 2023

$8.9M
Lost
$8.9M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$8.9M
Unrecovered0% recovered

9 million exploit via a publicly-accessible burn function left unprotected after an upgrade. The attacker destroyed SFM tokens to inflate their value, deposited, and withdrew disproportionate BNB.

2M) on April 20, keeping 20% as a claimed bug bounty.

How the exploit worked

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Access Control.

Lost: $8.9M

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

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

Event timeline

  1. Mar 28, 2023
    Exploit executed — $8.9M drained via improper access control
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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