badger dao hack

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on wednesday night an attacker drained funds from the wallets of dozens of users of the badger dao yield vault protocol using malicious contract permissions. blockchain data and security analytics company peckshield has concluded that the total loss amounted to about 2,100 btc and 151 eth. users first reported possible problems in the protocol’s channel on the discord messaging app at 9 p. m. et wednesday. speculation in online channels is that the hack is the result of an exploit in the badger. com user interface, and not in the core protocol contracts. many affected users report that while claiming yield farming rewards and interacting with badger vaults, they noticed their wallet providers prompting spurious requests for additional permissions.

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