Cryptocurrency

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2023-10-16 [vendor] TrueUSD TEURO announcement [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

A new, Euro-pegged stablecoin called $TEURO emerged on October 13, with an initial supply of around €70 million. However, TrueUSD subsequently tweeted that “we have zero affiliation with it”. The post warned people to “step back and refrain from risky investments”.However, the post raised only more questions, as the $TEURO token had been deployed by the address that deployed the primary TrueUSD token. This means that either TrueUSD is lying when they claim they’re unaffiliated with $TEURO, or some of their private keys were compromised, allowing an unrelated party to deploy a contract appearing to belong to them.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Private key compromise
Vendor / Product
TrueUSD TEURO announcement

Timeline

  1. 2023-10-16 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-10-16 Publicly disclosed