8ight Finance: Admin key compromise — private key shared via Facebook chat and Google Drive → treasury drain

8ight Finance, an OHM-fork on Harmony, lost $1.75M when a treasury private key shared via Facebook chat and Google Drive was compromised — exactly seven weeks after launch.

Occurred 2021-12-07 Loss $2M Status closed

Summary #

8ight Finance suffered a OHM-fork / Reserve Currency on 2021-12-07, resulting in a loss of approximately $2M.

What happened #

8ight Finance, an OHM-fork on Harmony, lost $1.75M when a treasury private key shared via Facebook chat and Google Drive was compromised — exactly seven weeks after launch.

Linked factors #

RD-F-004 — causal : Audit count likely 0; floor display [via dashboard_risk_factors/Vulnerability in audited or unaudited code: Unaudited]
RD-F-006 — causal : Audit-deploy gap — alternate field name [via dashboard_risk_factors/Code newly deployed/upgraded?: No recent changes]
RD-F-007 — related : Bug bounty absent — baseline integrity gap [via dashboard_risk_factors/Bug bounty: None]
RD-F-076 — related : Protocol age (Cat 5 — < 6 months age signal) [via dashboard_risk_factors/Protocol age: ~7 weeks (launched October 2021; exploited December 7, 2021)]
RD-F-126 — causal : Is-a-fork-of (Cat 8 anchor) [via dashboard_risk_factors/Forked?: Yes — Olympus DAO fork]