Wild Credit Hack
What happened
The attacker's address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xb1af124c…cdb95e
The transaction behind the attack:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdbef3b39…42ce07
The exploited contract:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x7b3b69ea…cdc6ca
Wild Credit team left initialize() function in the LPTokenMaster contract public and reusable, so anyone can become the owner of the LP token contract. The hacker took ownership of the contract, has minted tokens to themselves, and then used those tokens to withdraw real funds.
The hacker was a whitehat and returned the funds to the contract deployer:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb4fffa0e…434542
Case & protocol details
Security review history
- Code4rena Report
Funds Recovery
Recovered
$612K
Net Loss
$0
Evidence & learning
Attack pattern
Compare incidents →Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
- report Report twitter.com
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