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Penpie $27M Hack event

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Overview

The Penpie hack refers to the 3 September 2024 exploit of Penpie, a Pendle-based yield-boosting protocol, which lost roughly $27 million. The attacker exploited an unprotected pool-registration function to create a fake Pendle market and then used reentrancy in the batch reward-harvesting routine to manipulate reward accounting and drain funds. Pendle's own contracts were not the source of the bug, but Pendle paused affected functionality as a precaution while the incident was investigated.

Within the DeFi Intel graph, Penpie $27M Hack connects to 1 tracked entity, most strongly to Ethereum.

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Frequently asked questions

When did the Penpie hack occur?

3 September 2024.

How much was lost?

Around $27 million in crypto assets.

How did the attacker do it?

By registering a fake market through an unguarded registerPenpiePool function and then re-entering batchHarvestMarketRewards to inflate reward accounting across legitimate pools.

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