Cryptocurrency [loss] $12M+

"Crypto lender Polter Finance halts operations after $12M hack"

2024-11-16 [vendor] Polter Finance [chain] fantom
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Financial Loss $12.0M (12,000,000 USD)
Blockchain(s) Fantom

Incident Details

The Fantom-based Polter Finance defi project was exploited for $7 million when an attacker was able to perform an oracle manipulation attack. By artificially increasing the price of the $BOO token, which is a governance token used by the SpookySwap project, they were then able to use that token to drain Polter’s liquidity pools using a flash loan. The attacker successfully drained the entire $12 million worth of tokens on the platform.The creator of the platform stated that they had filed a police report with Singaporean authorities. They also attempted to contact the hacker via on-chain message to negotiate the return of funds, but have not received a response.

Total loss estimated at $12,000,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Flash loan attack on smart contract
Vendor / Product
Polter Finance

Timeline

  1. 2024-11-16 Breach occurred
  2. 2024-11-16 Publicly disclosed