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Velodrome

Nov 29, 2023

$250K
Lost
$250K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$250K
Unrecovered0% recovered

An attacker used social engineering to compromise the domain registrar account for both Velodrome and Aerodrome, bypassing 2FA protections. Nameserver records were altered to redirect legitimate traffic to malicious protocol clones.

Users were tricked into approving transactions on fake contracts, losing funds to attacker wallets. ChainSec and ZachXBT estimated losses at over $100K-$250K across both protocols.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Frontend & Infrastructure
Technique
DNS Hijack
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Optimism

Event timeline

  1. Nov 29, 2023
    Exploit executed — $250K drained via dns hijack
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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