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The DeFi platform was the victim of an attack shortly after launch, with 183 ETH compromised. After an initial sell-off, Force tokens are in recovery mode Monday.
Hackers made off with 183 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $386,000 at the time of writing, following a coordinated attack on DeFi platform ForceDAO Sunday. Following an initial sell-off, ForceDAOâs native Force token was in recovery mode on Monday, capping off a highly volatile 24 hours for the newly launched project.Â
ForceDAO detailed the Sunday exploit in a series of tweets, taking ownership of the âengineering oversightâ that resulted in the attack, which centered around the platformâs xFORCE contract.Â
POST-MORTEMTo the Force and DeFi community, we'd like to share a post-mortem on the recent xFORCE exploit.Thanks to everyone technical and non-technical who helped along the way.Especially to the White Hat who helped deter FORCE getting drained.https://t.co/MK2GH69yLd
â Force (@force_dao) April 4, 2021
In a follow-up blog post, Alberto Cevallos explained:
âThe exploiters were able to deposit FORCE tokens that would fail the transfer [f]rom call and receive xFORCE tokens, as the xFORCE contract expects a revert from the token but instead receives false.â
He continued:
âA user could then withdraw these newly minted xFORCE tokens for the remaining FORCE tokens in the vault, and liquidate them for ETH on exchanges.â
An additional 14.8 million Force tokens were compromised in the initial attack, though theyâve since been returned to the pool.
Often described as a quantitative hedge fund, Force is both a protocol and decentralized autonomous organization thatâs designed to produce higher-yielding DeFi opportunities for its community.
The Force token collapsed more than 99% on Sunday from $2.21 to a low of just $0.02 cents, according to CoinGecko. The token has since recovered 173% in the last 24 hours.
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