BadgerDAO Says Cloudflare Flaw Led to $130 Million Heist

December 10, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

Decentralized finance platform BadgerDAO said a flaw in the account creation process of the software company Cloudflare Inc. led to the theft of $130 million in cryptocurrencies earlier this month.

BadgerDAO detailed how the hack took place in a blog post on Thursday, saying a phishing attack that occurred on Dec. 2 was a result of “maliciously injected snippet provided” by Cloudflare Workers, a serverless application platform that runs on its cloud network. The post, which was prepared by BadgerDAO and cybersecurity firm Mandiant Corp., said the Cloudflare flaw had been since been remediated.

BadgerDAO hired Mandiant and ...

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