Exactly Hack
What happened
Exactly Protocol suffered a reentrancy attack, resulting in the loss of 4332.92 ETH, valued at approximately 7,197,240 $USD.
On August 18, 2023, Exactly Protocol, a lending and borrowing protocol operating on the Optimism chain, was exploited through a reentrancy attack. The attacker bypassed the permit check in the DebtManager contract's leverage function by using a fake market address without validation and changing the msg.sender to the victim's address. They then reentered the crossDeleverage function and stole the collaterals.
The stolen funds, a total of 4332.92 ETH, were bridged to the Ethereum mainnet, partly through the Across Protocol and partly via the Optimism Bridge. The value of the loss was approximately 7,197,240 $USD.
The Exactly:Deployer sent an on-chain message to the exploiter, expressing willingness to discuss the incident and providing instructions for private communication.
Optimism:
Attacker Addresses:
Malicious Transactions:
Malicious Contract:
https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0x6dd61c69…1a5b4d
Bridging Transaction:
https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x27f0fd95…8b8a31
Ethereum:
Funds Holder:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xE4f34a72…9da042
Bridging Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x77461e80…826849
Onchain Message:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x91dd9c55…2fe3d1
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Attack pattern
Compare incidents →Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
- analysis Website reference twitter.com
- analysis Website reference beincrypto.com
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