Report: GALA token exploit resulted from public leak of private key on GitHub
It appears that the leaked private key caused a change of ownership in the compromised smart contract 70 days prior. According to a new post by blockchain security firm SlowMist on Nov. 7, it appears that the last week’s token exploit affecting GameFi project Gala Games resulted from a public leak of applicable security keys on GitHub. As told by SlowMist, pNetwork, the cross-chain interoperability bridge used by Gala Games on the BNB Smart Chain, had three privileged roles in its smart contract pGALA.“The Admin role is used to manage upgrades and changes to the Admin address of the proxy....
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