An idle Telegram game called Super Sushi Samurai saw liquidity provider wallets hit $4.6 million due to a bug that allowed users to double their funds.
“We have been exploited. It is related to mint. We are still examining the code. Tokens were minted and sold as LPs,” the project said. Official X Account.
Yuga Labs smart contract developer known as Coffee said the token contract There was a bug. If a user transfers their entire wallet balance to themselves, their funds will be doubled.
The attackers appear to have done exactly this and then used the funds to drain liquidity from the decentralized exchange. The attackers sold the newly minted tokens for 1,310 wrapped ETH, worth $4.6 million at current prices.
However, your funds are not completely lost. person who withdraws funds Message sent They said it was a white hat rescue hack. They provided contact details and said the user should receive compensation. According to the project Stick it out To the exploiter.
The game is played via Telegram and runs on the Blast network. Rewards are generated through transaction taxes, Blast’s on-chain transaction fee rebates, and revenue generated from ETH in the LP pool.
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