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PAID Network: Infinite Mint — Compromised Deployer Key (Suspected Insider)

PAID Network's deployer EOA transferred token contract ownership to an unknown address 30 minutes before 59.47M PAID tokens were minted and dumped on Uniswap — collapsing the price 89% and raising widespread suspicion of an inside job.

Occurred 2021-03-05 Loss $27M Status closed

Summary #

PAID Network suffered a Token / IDO Platform on 2021-03-05, resulting in a loss of approximately $27M.

What happened #

PAID Network's deployer EOA transferred token contract ownership to an unknown address 30 minutes before 59.47M PAID tokens were minted and dumped on Uniswap — collapsing the price 89% and raising widespread suspicion of an inside job.

Linked factors #

  • RD-F-007 — related : Bug bounty absent — baseline integrity gap [via dashboard_risk_factors/Bug bounty: Unknown]
  • RD-F-101 — illustrative : Large governance proposal queued — RT signal would have fired [via realtime_signals/Governance/admin action (Y/N): Y — ownership transfer of token contract]