Cryptocurrency
[loss] $45M+
Tweet by Hedgey Finance
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$44.7M
(44,700,000 USD)
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
Hedgey Finance, a platform used to manage token claims, lockups, and vesting, was hit with a flash loan attack that drained $44.7 million of customer funds from the platform.The majority of assets were stolen from Hedgey on the Arbitrum layer-2 network, although around $2.1 million of them were stolen from the version deployed on the Ethereum mainnet.Hedgey Finance confirmed the exploit, and sent an optimistic and congratulatory message on-chain: “Well done for finding it! We’re assuming you executed this exploit as a white hat, so we’d like to get in touch with you to discuss next steps.” No on-chain response thus far.
Total loss estimated at $44,700,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Flash loan attack on smart contract
- Vendor / Product
- Hedgey Finance
Timeline
- 2024-04-19 Breach occurred
- 2024-04-19 Publicly disclosed