Data leak [loss] $120M+

"Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million"

2021-12-01 [vendor] BadgerDAO
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $120.0M (120,000,000 USD)

Incident Details

A hacker was able to use a compromised Cloudflare API key to inject malicious code into the BadgerDAO platform via Cloudflare Workers. They then siphoned currency of various kinds, equivalent to approximately $120 million, out of user accounts over approximately two weeks before being discovered.

Total loss estimated at $120,000,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Malicious code injection / supply chain
Vendor / Product
BadgerDAO

Timeline

  1. 2021-12-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-12-01 Publicly disclosed