Crypto game exploited for $4.6M, hacker claims to be white-hat
Food-themed crypto game Super Sushi Samurai was exploited for approximately $4.6 million today, though it appears to have been a white-hat operation. The project’s token, SSS, contained a vulnerability within its contract that allowed for duplicating balances when making a transfer between the same ‘to’ and ‘from’ address. At the time of writing, the proceeds, 1,310 Wrapped Ether ( WETH ) worth $4.6 million , remain in the exploiter’s address. SSS exploited on blast for ~$4.8m pic.twitter.com/YpVLBYGqw7 — Spreek (@spreekaway) March 21, 2024 Read more: Ethereum’s Dencun causes ‘Blast’ layer 2 outage Super Sushi Samurai had gone live just hours earlier on Blast, the controversial Ethereum layer-2 network, with the SSS token launched on March 17. The project had previously been runner-up in Blast’s recent Big Bang contest. The project’s team confirmed the hack, known as an ‘infinite mint’ attack, stating “Tokens were minted and sold into the LP.” As a result, the token’s value d