Description of the event: On October 6, an unknown individual contacted our domain service provider Dynadot, impersonating an authorized Galxe member and bypassing the security process with falsified documentation. The impersonator then gained unauthorized access to the domain account, which was manipulated to redirect website visitors to a fake site and sign transactions that misappropriated their funds. On October 7, Galxe released a statement on the October 6 DNS security incident stating that the site is now fully restored, with an estimated 1,120 users affected and approximately $270,000 stolen. On October 11, Galxe announced a compensation plan for the security incident that occurred on October 6, 2023. Any affected users will receive full compensation in USDT on Polygon, calculated based on its value at 18:00 Beijing time on October 9.
Hacked Event Broadcast
Verified blockchain security incidents with original evidence and historical event dates.
Description of the event: On October 6th, MCT issued an announcement stating that in the past two days, some users had reported cases of their MCT wallets being compromised. After investigation today, it was discovered that due to the DNS domain hijacking, under certain specific conditions, private keys could potentially be uploaded to a fraudulent domain. MCT advises users who have entered their private keys into MCT since September 15, 2023, to transfer their wallet balances as a precautionary measure as soon as possible.
Description of the event: There is a large liquidity removal on a fake CommEx token. Deployer removed ~$154k from the LP. BSC: 0xD1C3ee0f845bCc38a8cB9Dc5337dFd5a372Bb8Ed.
Description of the event: On October 5th, blockchain detective ZachXBT posted on social media, stating that a hacker had made a profit of 234 ETH (~$385,000) in the past 24 hours by conducting SIM card swap attacks on four different friend.tech users.
Description of the event: According to SlowMist, Stars Arena appeared to have been stolen due to a major security breach in its smart contract. Currently, the hacker has transferred 266,103 AVAX to the address (0xa2Eb...ad7A). The address (0xa2Eb...ad7A) transferred 50.32 AVAX to FixedFloat on October 6. On October 12, Stars Arena tweeted that they have recovered approximately 90% of the lost funds. An agreement has been reached with the hacker to return the funds, with a 10 percent bounty and 1,000 AVAX lost in the cross-chain bridge. 266,104 AVAX were lost, and the hacker returned 239,493 AVAX in two transactions. 27,610 AVAX were paid as a bounty.
Description of the event: There is a flashloan attack on the DePay platform that resulted in the theft of 827 USDC. The exploiter used a security issue with DePay router to steal the USDC.
Description of the event: Metropolis World announced that their Discord server was compromised.
Description of the event: The GEMIE Discord server was hacked and the attackers posted phishing links in the announcement channel. Please do not interact with hxxps://gemie.site/.
Description of the event: VendX Discord server was compromised.
Description of the event: There is an exit scam on a fake EigenLayer token. The deployer profited ~$300k. BSC: 0x14ac066ac2CD24CBdE31f78659c11F13aB61E4e7.
Description of the event: There was a large liquidity removal on DKP resulting in losses of approximately $204,000 USDT. The token contract is 0xd06fa1BA7c80F8e113c2dc669A23A9524775cF19.
Description of the event: A phishing link has been posted in the factory-updates channel of LuckyFactoryNFT. Do not interact with the malicious link.
Description of the event: Mode Discord was hacked. A phishing link was posted in the announcements channel of the Mode Network Discord server.
Description of the event: On September 27th, Venom Bears‘ Discord server was compromised.
Description of the event: SpaceChain Discord was hacked. A phishing link was posted in the announcements channel of SpaceChain Discord server.
Description of the event: On September 26th, XSDWETHpool On BSC was exploited for ~$12.1k in a flash loan attack. The attacker created a malicious contract to interact with the pool contract and gained 56.96 WBNB. Pool Contract: 0xbfBcB8BDE20cc6886877DD551b337833F3e0d96d.
Description of the event: There is an exit scam on a fake Justus Token associated with fake Twitter Justusztoken. Deployer dumped 302 WBNB for a profit of ~$59k. BSC: 0xae7607dE0F0665220E77b76E18d94965076e684c.
Description of the event: On September 24th, according to Definalist on Twitter, scammers had deposited fake APT tokens into South Korea's largest exchange, Upbit. After these fake tokens were deposited into numerous user accounts, many users proceeded to directly sell them. The only explanation for this situation is that Upbit's wallet system only checked the type and data and processed deposits and withdrawals.
Description of the event: On September 25th, Cyvers Alerts tweeted that a certain EOA address received 5000 ETH from HTX yesterday, and this morning, they noticed that HTX had conducted a hot wallet migration. It has been confirmed that one of HTX's hot wallets was compromised, resulting in a loss of 8.2 million USD, and the hacker's address has been disclosed. HTX has issued a public statement on the blockchain, addressing the hacker and offering a 5% white hat bonus if the stolen funds are returned by October 2nd; otherwise, they will transfer the information to law enforcement authorities for further action and to prosecute the hacker. Justin Sun also stated that HTX has fully covered the losses incurred from the attack and has successfully resolved all related issues. All user assets are safe and the platform is operating completely normally. On October 7, the HTX attackers returned 4,999 ETH (about $8.2 million) of the stolen funds.
Description of the event: There was a flash loan exploit on Kub/Kub-split. The attacker gained ~$78.4k via pool manipulation. Contract: 0xc98E183D2e975F0567115CB13AF893F0E3c0d0bD.