Security incident · 2024-07-31
Terra 2.0
According to the public DefiLlama incident dataset, Terra 2.0 (Terra2) suffered a security incident on 2024-07-31, with about $6.4M reported lost.
| Date | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|
| Reported loss | $6.4M |
| Chain | Terra2 |
| Target type | DeFi Protocol |
| Technique class | Reentrancy |
| Technique | Reentrancy |
| Bridge incident | No |
| Within 2024 | #35 by loss that year, 0.4% of all reported losses that year |
How this kind of attack works
The contract sent funds before updating balances, and the attacker re-entered during the transfer to withdraw repeatedly.
Would a pre-payment check have helped
Reentrancy is a classic contract bug, unrelated to the counterparty; code audits address it.
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