Hackers Drain Millions From Grand Base Following Private Key Compromise !!😱😱
Grand Base, a platform for assets tokenization on Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain, has disclosed a loss of $ 1.7 million due to a private key compromise.
The occurrence resulted in a financial loss and a decline in the value of its token by 99% in a single day.
Details of the Grand Base attack
The official social media channel of the Grand Base via their Telegram channel was updated that the breach occurred in the early hours of April 15.
The admin posted a statement on the platform warning everyone to avoid interfacing with the hacked contract, demanding its total withdrawal from the affected platform after the security loophole was detected.
PeckShield, a blockchain analysis firm, was the first one to alert that the problem occurred once the private key had been cracked and helped the hacker to be able to access the trade of the liquidity pools of Grand Base.
Attackers were able to debit the platform of around $1.7 million worth of token and within 30 minutes they had converted it to about 527 Ethereum (ETH) and transferred it to the unknown wallet.
As a result of the attack, the fluctuations of Grand Base’s native coin become steep, close to destroying the market value, and it is the representation of how investors lack confidence.
Besides, CertiK, an analysis company, has highlighted the scope of attackers in their detailed follow-up.
To exert control over the deployer contracts used by Grand Base is one of the scopes they discovered.
They tricked the central bank’s system and gave out an enormous amount of GB tokens without a mandate and further distributed these tokens, inflating the situation.
