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May 31, 2023

$375K
Lost
$375K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$375K
Unrecovered0% recovered

A developer leaked private deployment keys to GitHub, which an attacker exploited to drain $375K from the unshETH staking protocol. The attacker transferred ownership of smart contracts to themselves before the protocol emergency-paused withdrawals and the keys were secured.

How the exploit worked

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Price Manipulation.

Lost: ~$26k

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
DeFi
Classification
Frontend & Infrastructure
Technique
Key Stored Publicly
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. May 31, 2023
    Exploit executed — $375K drained via key stored publicly
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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