Cryptocurrency
[loss] $400,000
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Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$400,000
(400,000 USD)
Affected
9K
individuals/accounts
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
Around $400,000 in ETH was stolen from around 9,000 wallets on the Abstract layer-2 network, which is built by the same company that makes the Pudgy Penguins NFTs. It appears that the affected wallets had all been used to play Cardex, a fantasy trading card game that had launched only a week prior.Attackers compromised a private key belonging to the game’s creators, which allowed them to drain wallets that still had an active session with the game.
Total loss estimated at $400,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Smart contract exploit / hack
- Vendor / Product
- Abstract Cardex
Timeline
- 2025-02-18 Breach occurred
- 2025-02-18 Publicly disclosed