DarkPool Hack

TOTAL LOST $104K
Low Other

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ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Grok
Affected Chain 2022 Incident surface
Recovered - No recovery reported
All-Time Rank #1518 By amount stolen
Protocol Type Exploit/Other Target category

Incident Overview

Quick Summary

Dark Pool token was hacked and 103,859 $USD was stolen from the liquidity pool. The hacker used the vulnerability of the token's smart contract.

Details of the Exploit

Dark Pool is the BEP20 standard token trading on PancakeSwap. The smart contract of the $DPC token has a vulnerability, which allows users to accumulate a huge amount of rewards after staking LP tokens. The claimStakeLP() function was called multiple times by the attacker's malicious contracts and granted the attacker the opportunity to withdraw more than 20,000 $DPC tokens.

Consequently, the attacker swapped $DPC tokens for $USDT and made a profit of 103,859 $USD. All stolen funds remain in the attacker's address at the moment of writing.

Block Data Reference

Attacker address:

https://bscscan.com/address/0xf211Fa86…5b25C9

Attacker contract:

https://bscscan.com/address/0x2109bbec…4ab419

Draining transaction:

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x92cab23d…72e86f

Liquidity Pool:

https://bscscan.com/address/0x79cd24ed…f04be3

Incident Report

Protocol / Project DarkPool
Date of Incident
Attack Technique Other
Classification Token
Primary Source View Post-Mortem #1 View Post-Mortem #2

Protocol Information

Protocol Type Exploit/Other
Affected Token DPC
Protocol Twitter/X @DarkGoldCoin
Team Anonymous
Source Code Verified On-Chain

Market Context at Time of Hack

Token Categories
Mineable
Protocol Links

What the Attacker Needed to Succeed

Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.

Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of other and Solidity and EVM internals
Capital Required Seed capital to cover gas and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with smart contracts and deploy a custom exploit contract
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in DarkPool's contract logic - root cause: token
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single atomic block
Obfuscation Plan A strategy to launder and move stolen funds - typically through mixers, cross-chain bridges, or decentralized DEX swaps to resist tracing

What Auditors Should Check

Could this have been caught in audit? Likely — with a thorough Other audit checklist and test coverage

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to DarkPool, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (September 2022).

  • Verify all logic paths related to Other are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
  • 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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