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Tornado Cash

May 20, 2023

$2.2M
Lost
$2.2M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$2.2M
Unrecovered0% recovered

An attacker exploited Tornado Cash governance by proposing a malicious proposal that appeared identical to a previously approved one, gaining voter trust. 2M governance votes to the attacker, exceeding legitimate votes and gaining full governance control.

17M) from governance vaults before later proposing its reversal.

Target
Other
Classification
Governance
Technique
Malicious Proposal
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. May 20, 2023
    Exploit executed — $2.2M drained via malicious proposal
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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