Casper DeFi Hack

TOTAL LOST $172K
Low Other

What happened

In the official post mortem, the project team says that their Solidity developer left the minting possibility in the contract constructor.

Their Solidity developer is the contract deployer as well:

https://ftmscan.com/address/0xe6a02584…19782b

The contract deployer invoked the mint() function in the following transactions:

https://ftmscan.com/tx/0xf296baf2…05f29d

https://ftmscan.com/tx/0x4d02eac3…8d4a36

https://ftmscan.com/tx/0x86360b2e…7ea35d

The minted tokens were sold by the contract deployer multiple times:

https://ftmscan.com/txs?a=0xe6a02584…19782b&p=1

Received WFTM tokens were exchanged on BNB tokens and bridged to the BSC:

https://ftmscan.com/tx/0xf1d92544…5586f8

https://ftmscan.com/tx/0xb099c04d…b6fd80

The token recipient on the Binance Smart Chain:

https://www.bscscan.com/address/0xe6a02584…19782b

The stolen 516.91 BNB tokens were exchanged on BTCB at:

https://www.bscscan.com/tx/0xf4bc083c…41c41b

BTCB tokens were bridged through Ren:

https://www.bscscan.com/tx/0x2c22bd5f…6111c2

According to the announcement below, stolen funds were returned:

https://casperdefi.medium.com/casper-defi-post-mortem-after-casper-token-hack-part-2-1bae9a65ae5c

Case & protocol details

Classification Yield Aggregator
Protocol Type Exploit/Other
Affected asset / contract CASPER
Official Website www.casperdefi.com/
Protocol Twitter/X @CasperTracker

Funds Recovery

100.0%

Recovered

$190K

Net Loss

$0

Evidence & learning

Sources and on-chain records

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