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@NeerajKA i wear a watch for pilots when i fly not because i too am a pilot but for when BOTH pilots die and the avionics go out and i have to land it with only my watch
Wintermute lost $160M because their address looked pretty
Their vault admin key was 0x0000000fe6... (7 leading zeros)
Cute, and crackable :)
> Profanity (the tool they used) picked a 32 bit random number as the seed, so there were only 4.3 billion possible starting keys, not 2^256 - yes 4.3B is really small
> you can iterate them one by one to find theirs
> Sept 15, 2022, 1inch publishes the flaw. Their estimate, 1,000 GPUs and 50 days to crack every 7 character vanity address in existence
> Sept 16, $3.3M drained from Profanity addresses
> Wintermute's CEO quote tweets it with "Karma is a bitch :)"
> Sept 20, the Wintermute vault admin key is cracked for $160M