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$6M Lazy Summer Vault Exploit Detailed
Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Exploit; Months of Preparation Disclosed in Post-Mortem
A relentless wave of DeFi exploits—spanning smart contracts, bridges, oracles, and governance—is draining billions and setting new hack records across the crypto sector.
Summer.fi published a post-mortem revealing that the $6 million Lazy Summer Protocol vault exploit involved months of preparation by the attacker before execution. The incident, previously reported as a cross-chain vault vulnerability, prompted the protocol to suspend all vaults and set deposit caps to zero.
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2 sources
- Summer.fi reveals months-long preparation behind $6M DeFi exploit · ambcrypto.com · T2
- Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Price Exploit · bankless.com · T2