Luna Yield Hack

TOTAL LOST $6.7M
Medium Rugpull solana

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Affected Chain solana Incident surface
Recovered $4.0M 60.0% returned
All-Time Rank #381 By amount stolen
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull Target category

Incident Overview

During the Luna Yield IDO event on SolPAD platform, funds were stolen from Luna Yield's address with a loss amounting to around $6.7M in different tokens including SOL, ETH, USDT, and YFI.

After the fundraising event for Luna Yield on SolPAD, the Luna Yield's website was taken down. The funds were stored at an address and were stolen. The stolen Wrapped Ether was distributed between different wallets.

Solpad Finance has announced that they have refunded 60% of the stolen funds to the investors.

Luna Yield's address:

https://solscan.io/account/EiySftqENv…9SXap7

Distribution of the stolen Wrapped Ether:

https://solscan.io/account/EiySftqENv…9SXap7#splTokenTxs

Incident Report

Protocol / Project Luna Yield
Date of Incident
Affected Chain(s) solana
Attack Technique Rugpull
Classification Yield Aggregator

Protocol Information

Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected Token LUNY
Official Website www.lunayield.com/
Protocol Twitter/X @Luna_Yield
Team Anonymous
Source Code Unverified

What the Attacker Needed to Succeed

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Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of rugpull and Rust/Anchor program internals and the Solana account model
Capital Required Seed capital to cover Solana network fees and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with solana Solana programs and deploy a custom exploit program or signer account
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in Luna Yield's program logic - root cause: yield aggregator
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single Solana transaction (atomic across instructions)
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? Hard to catch — private key / OpSec failures are outside smart contract audit scope

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Luna Yield, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (August 2021).

  • Verify all logic paths related to Rugpull 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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Funds Recovery

60.0%

Recovered

$4.0M

Net Loss

2683933

Sources & References

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