Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem
DEI Contract Vulnerability: $6.30M Reported Loss
The stablecoin DEI launched by the DeFi protocol DEUS has been hacked, and the loss has exceeded $6.3 million.
- Reported loss
- $ 6,300,000
- Attack category
- Contract Vulnerability
Incident Overview
Over $5 million was lost on Arbitrum and $1.3 million on the BSC chain. This appears to be a public destroy bug. On May 7, one of the DEI hacker addresses (starting with 0xdf610228) returned about 1.07 million DAIs. on May 8, DEUS tweeted to confirm that the DEI attackers had returned 2,023 ETH.
Sources & References
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