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Re:Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M by ralfd on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:47AM (#28154156)
But "breaking" electronically into a system also only executes (erronous) permissible actions? Where do you draw the line?

Reading this a hash collision was exploited:

https://rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/

> Well... here's the actual sighash of the target function:

> http://ethers.utils.id ('putCurEpochConPubKeyBytes(bytes)').slice(0, 10)

> '0x41973cd9'

> And the sighash that the attacker crafted...

> http://ethers.utils.id ('f1121318093(bytes,bytes,uint64)').slice(0, 10)

> '0x41973cd9'

> Fantastic. No private key compromise required! Just craft the right data and boom... the contract will just hack itself!

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