Level Finance confirms $1M exploit due to buggy smart contract
An attacker manipulated a “claim multiple” bug in a Level Finance smart contract to steal more than 214,000 LVL tokens from the exchange.
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An attacker manipulated a “claim multiple” bug in a Level Finance smart contract to steal more than 214,000 LVL tokens from the exchange.
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