Incident Overview
Bill Murray's hot wallet was compromised by hacker, which led to the loss of funds collected in the actor's NFT collection. The hacker managed to drain wallet for 112 $ETH.
Bill Murray is an American comedian and actor. As soon as the actor got acquainted with the concept of NFT, he began to work on a collection that will consist of unique stories from his life. The proceeds from the asset sales were to go to charity for military families, emergency response services and rare medical diagnoses with the help of life-changing grants.
The hacker was able to get the actor's private key or seed phrase, thanks to which, the malicious actor was able to drain the actor's wallet for 112 $ETH.
As it turned out, the hacker also wanted to steal the actor's NFT collection, but it was well protected, and all the NFTs were successfully sent to safe account.
Bill Murray Hot Wallet: https://etherscan.io/address/0xabFEC94B…935529
Incident Report
Protocol Information
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
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What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Bill Muray Wallet Hack, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (August 2022).
- Verify all logic paths related to Access Control are guarded by proper access controls and input validation - see the Access Control Attacks attack class for patterns
- Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs
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