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Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 09:00 UTC

Liquid Global

Warm wallet compromise across multiple assets.

Partial
Funds stolen
$97.00M
Recovered
$16.00M16%
Still outstanding
$81.00M
Chain
Ethereum
Category
CEX
Attack vector
Private Key Compromise
Reported by
SlowMist
Incident ID
h2021-3

Exploit & recovery timeline

  1. Aug 19, 2021 · 07:00 UTC
    Attack preparation

    Attacker wallets funded and staged ahead of the private key compromise exploit against Liquid Global.

  2. Aug 19, 2021 · 09:00 UTC
    Exploit executed

    $97.0M drained from Liquid Global on Ethereum via Private Key Compromise.

  3. Aug 19, 2021 · 10:00 UTC
    Detected by SlowMist

    SlowMist flagged the anomalous transactions and published an initial alert.

  4. Aug 19, 2021 · 13:00 UTC
    Protocol response

    Liquid Global paused affected contracts or withdrawals and began tracing outbound flows.

  5. Aug 20, 2021 · 09:00 UTC
    Funds traced

    Stolen assets followed through mixers, bridges, and exchange deposit addresses.

  6. Aug 26, 2021 · 09:00 UTC
    Partial recovery

    $16.0M of $97.0M recovered (16%); the remainder is still unaccounted for.

  7. Sep 18, 2021 · 09:00 UTC
    Investigation continues

    Remaining funds monitored across chains with exchange partners notified.