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Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem

Balancer Flash Loan Attack: $2.41K Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

According to DeBank Twitter, hackers once again used dYdX's lightning loan to attack the COMP trading pair in Balancer's part of the liquidity pool, and took away the unreceived COMP rewards from the pool to make a profit of 10.8 ETH, which is about $2408.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://twitter.com/frenzy_hao/status/1277597671847411712 (opens in a new tab)

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