Unknown User Hack

Reported loss $3.7M
Phishing

What happened

The user lost 4.20 million in a phishing attack on Ethereum, resulting in a loss of 3,725,002 USD worth of aEthWETH and aEthUNI tokens.

On January 21, 2024, a user fell victim to a phishing attack on the Ethereum network. The attacker exploited multiple ERC20 Permit signatures, using temp addresses pre-computed by CREATE2. The user lost 1576.04 aEthWETH and 39,933.12 aEthUNI tokens, equivalent to 3.72 million USD.

The stolen funds were transferred to another EOAs and still remain in these addresses .

Attacker Address:

Address 0x0000…0000

Funds Holder as of Jan 23, 2024:

Address 0xd9b7…57Bc

Malicious Transactions:

Tx 0x93a0…2f09

Tx 0xbc43…b583

Malicious Contract Address:

Address 0xed0e…0572

Protocol details

Classification Other
Protocol Type Exploit/Phishing

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