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Orion Pools

Hack or exploit on Feb 2, 2023 · Reentrancy

ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 5 SOURCES
Lost
$3M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#595
among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

On February 2, 2023, Orion Protocol on BSC and Ethereum was exploited via reentrancy in swapThroughOrionPool. Attacker created a fake token (ATK) and used reentrancy to hijack deposit logic, extracting $3M.

Details

Date
Feb 2, 2023
Kind
Hack or exploit
Method
Reentrancy
How in
Smart contract bug
Target
DeFi protocol
Chains
BNB Chain, Ethereum
Audit (rekt.news)
unaudited

Reported by

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