Data leak [loss] $80M+

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2021-04-19 [vendor] EasyFi
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $80.0M (80,000,000 USD)

Incident Details

Hackers compromised a computer belonging to EasyFi founder Ankitt Gaur, accessing his private keys which allowed them to transfer $6 million in stablecoins and $120 million worth of EASY. The price of EASY crashed as a result of the low liquidity, limiting the hacker’s total payout to around $80 million. EasyFi followed the breach with a hard fork to “EZ 2.0”, and compensated users with a mix of stablecoins and “IOU tokens” that could later be redeemed for discounted EZ.

Total loss estimated at $80,000,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Smart contract exploit / hack
Vendor / Product
EasyFi

Timeline

  1. 2021-04-19 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-04-19 Publicly disclosed