Vadia Finance Hack
What happened
The contract deployer added initial liquidity at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdbc4f7a5…53f03c
The external wallet used hidden minting functionality under the approve() function to generate new tokens onto his wallet at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xac95d899…c65a07
The minted tokens were sold by the external wallet at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x96dc3c17…6df1ac
Stolen funds were transferred to the wallet, marked as Phishing4814 by the Etherscan:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xaf4b3b5b…5e25be
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report vadia.world
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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