Cryptocurrency [loss] $1M+

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2022-05-24 [vendor] DecentraWorld [chain] bsc
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $1.0M (1,008,207 USD)
Blockchain(s) Bsc

Incident Details

The creators of the Decentraworld project, and its associated $DEWO token, rug pulled for 3127 BNB, valued at just over $1 million. The project promised an “ecosystem of dapps with privacy protocols by default”. The website spoke of how “governments around the world want to keep controlling their citizens by fighting the one thing they can’t control, the blockchain and crypto-assets”, and the project promised to “help humanity maintain its privacy, control, and financial freedom”. Unfortunately for the believers, this turned out not to be true when the project drained the funds and deleted their online presence.

Total loss estimated at $1,008,207.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Exit scam / rug pull
Vendor / Product
DecentraWorld

Timeline

  1. 2022-05-24 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-05-24 Publicly disclosed