Cryptocurrency [loss] $22M+

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2022-04-12 [vendor] Elephant Money [chain] bsc
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Financial Loss $22.0M (22,000,000 USD)
Blockchain(s) Bsc

Incident Details

A person was able to use a flash loan attack to drain the Elephant Money project, crashing the token price to 0 while cashing out 27,416 BNB ($11 million). Losses to the project were likely higher, including the loss of 30 billion $ELEPHANT tokens (~$10 million). The project boasted audits by both CertiK and Solidity Finance on its website, though CertiK later tweeted that the flaw was with the treasury contract, which was unverified and unaudited.Elephant Money is a defi project with some questionable promises — its Twitter account advertises that people can “earn 672% APY”, and a recent tweet encouraged people to use Elephant Money “as your new bank: Your share of ELEPHANT tokens can be compared to your debit account, except that it also generates you money. Stampede Perpetual Bonds is your retirement fund.” Hopefully no one took them up on their suggestion to put their debit account balance or retirement money into the project.

Total loss estimated at $22,000,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Flash loan attack on smart contract
Vendor / Product
Elephant Money

Timeline

  1. 2022-04-12 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-04-12 Publicly disclosed