{"id":645240,"date":"2026-08-19T05:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/mayachain-halts-network-after-estimated-1-7m-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:53:47","slug":"mayachain-halts-network-after-estimated-1-7m-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/mayachain-halts-network-after-estimated-1-7m-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"MAYAChain halts network after estimated $1.7M exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-company-hits-vulnerability.jpg\" alt=\"MAYAChain halts network after estimated $1.7M exploit\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A preliminary analysis says six chained bugs let a 23-message transaction drain 48.87 million CACAO, sending the token down nearly 89%.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) Maya Protocol halted its network after an attacker exploited a series of software flaws to obtain an estimated $1.7 million in crypto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Maya Protocol\u2019s pseudonymous co-founder Aalux <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaluxxMyth\/status\/2089792721086996703\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the attacker stole about 20 Bitcoin, valued at $1.4 million and another $300,000 in assets. He said the protocol implemented a global halt, contained further damage and started working on a fix to resume swaps.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary technical analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaluxxMyth\/status\/2089792960833487030\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a> by Aalux attributed the incident to six chained bugs involving trade accounts, outbound transaction handling and liquidity pool calculations. It said the attacker used a single transaction containing 23 messages to trigger a false theft detection, artificially inflate a low-liquidity pool and withdraw 48.87 million CACAO tokens from Maya\u2019s Asgard module.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/maya-protocol-1-7m-exploit-network-halt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary analysis says six chained bugs let a 23-message transaction drain 48.87 million CACAO, sending the token down nearly 89%. Cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) Maya Protocol halted its network after an attacker exploited a series of software flaws to obtain an estimated $1.7 million in crypto.\u00a0 On Wednesday, Maya Protocol\u2019s pseudonymous co-founder Aalux said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}