Incident Overview
LiveArtX NFT project's wallet was compromised. The value of the Seven Treasures NFT dropped by more than 80%.
LiveArtX is an NFT marketplace. The project experienced a private key compromise on one of the project wallets. The price of the Seven Treasures NFT collection dropped by more than 80% in 24 hours.
36,743 $USD worth of assets were stolen from the victim's wallet.
Incident Report
Protocol Information
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.
What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to LiveArtX, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (October 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
Master these auditing techniques with hands-on labs and real exploit scenarios in the Smart Contract Hacking course.
Free TrialRelated Attack Classes
The technique used in this hack maps to these vulnerability classes in our security curriculum:
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