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DeFi Protocol Cream Finance Hacked for Second Time This Year
The attacked drained just over $25 million of AMP tokens and ether.
Updated May 11, 2023, 4:12 p.m. Published Aug 30, 2021, 8:08 a.m.
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Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol, suffered its second flash loan attack this year, with the perpetrators draining more than $25 million.
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- The attack was first reported by PeckShield in a tweet early on Monday. The blockchain security firm pointed to Ethereum records showing at least $6 million were drained at 5:44 UTC.
- Cream Finance later confirmed the hack in a tweet, adding that 418,311,571 AMP tokens and 1,308.09 ether had been stolen, bringing the total value of the hack to just over $25 million. PeckShield updated its estimate, saying the hacker siphoned off about $18.8 million.
- The root cause of the incident was lending of AMP tokens, Cream Finance Product Manager Eason Wu said on Discord. Other assets on Cream are secure, he said.
- AMP token contracts allowed for a reentrancy attack, the same type of exploit used in the infamous DAO hack.
- Flash loan attacks take advantage of one of DeFi’s most controversial features: loans that do not require collateral.
- Cream Finance lost $37 million in the attack earlier this year.
UPDATE (AUG. 30, 9:13 UTC): Updates value, adds details from Cream Finance tweet.
UPDATE (AUG. 30, 10:22 UTC) Adds updated estimate from PeckShield.
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