Cryptocurrency [loss] $2M+

Tweet by ConcentricFi

2024-01-22 [vendor] Concentric Finance [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $1.8M (1,800,000 USD)
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

The Concentric Finance yield aggregator project issued a statement that the protocol had been exploited after a social engineering attack on a team member that had access to the project’s deployer wallet.Tokens priced at around $1.8 million were drained from the project vaults. In a tweet, Concentric urged users to revoke contract approvals to avoid further losses.The wallet addresses used by the exploiter appeared to connect the attacker to the $2.7 million OKX DEX theft in December 2023.

Total loss estimated at $1,800,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Social engineering attack
Vendor / Product
Concentric Finance

Timeline

  1. 2024-01-22 Breach occurred
  2. 2024-01-22 Publicly disclosed