Cryptocurrency
[loss] $1M+
"Moby Post-Mortem Report / Growth Plan"
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$1.1M
(1,088,500 USD)
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
The Moby Trade defi options protocol suffered a $1 million loss, narrowly avoiding the loss of another nearly $1.5 million. The project team stated that a hacker had “identified and exploited a vulnerability in the key management system” that was supposed to protect a private key used by the project. Using the private key, they were able to perform contract upgrades that then allowed them to drain about almost $1.1 million in wBTC, wETH, and USDC.Another $1.47 million in assets were vulnerable as a result, but the whitehat blockchain security firm Seal911 successfully drained those funds to later be returned to the protocol once it was secured.
Total loss estimated at $1,088,500.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Smart contract exploit / hack
- Vendor / Product
- Moby Trade theft
Timeline
- 2025-01-08 Breach occurred
- 2025-01-08 Publicly disclosed