Cryptocurrency [loss] $400,000

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2025-02-18 [vendor] Abstract Cardex [chain] ethereum
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

  1. 2025-02-18 Breach occurred
  2. 2025-02-18 Publicly disclosed