Taylor Hack

Reported loss $1.6M
Access Control

What happened

Taylor has been hacked for 2,578 ETH (about $1.5 million) as well as some of its TAY tokens.

The hacker's address:

Address 0xf243…1053

According to a Medium blog post the company published, what truly happened isn’t yet clear, although several indicators point them towards a group of hackers that hacked another project dubbed CypheriumChain for more than 17,000 ETH (about $9.8 million).

The hacker(s), according to Taylor, collected its funds from multiple sources in a single wallet, before transferring them to a larger one:

Tx 0x878b…83e8

After the theft, the organization’s team managed to identify an attempt to dump its TAY tokens on the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange IDEX:

Token transfers 0xf243…1053

Protocol details

Classification CeFi
Protocol Type Exploit/Access control
Affected asset / contract TAY
Protocol links Website @smarttaylorapp

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