Erroneous aUSD mint disrupts Acala — Stablecoin Event

Identity and classification

Overview

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Date	2022-08-14
Public event category	Security and chain incident
Canonical event subtype	Erroneous Mint Incident
Structured detail kind	Security Incident
Stablecoin subjects	Acala Dollar / aUSD Seed
Organization subjects	Acala Network
Impact	Critical
Effect on stablecoin lifecycle	Restricted or impaired
Canonical status-effect value	Impaired
Recovery or reversal	Not applicable
Recovery date	Not Applicable
Cause or mechanism	A configuration error led to erroneous aUSD minting and market disruption.
Structured detail coverage	Structured fields available below
Record confidence	High

Date: 2022-08-14
Public category: Security and chain incident
Canonical subtype: Erroneous Mint Incident
Structured detail kind: Security Incident
Impact: Critical
Status effect: Restricted or impaired
Recovery: Not applicable
Recovery date: Not yet recorded
Cause or mechanism: A configuration error led to erroneous aUSD minting and market disruption.
Record confidence: High

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Structured event detail

Security-incident detail — Summary	A configuration error led to erroneous aUSD minting and market disruption.
Security-incident detail — Status	Resolved
Security-incident detail — Loss or exposure	Approximately 3.022 billion erroneously minted aUSD was identified; most was burned through governance actions. (approximate)
Security-incident detail — Resolution date	2022-09-26

Security-incident detail — Summary: A configuration error led to erroneous aUSD minting and market disruption.
Security-incident detail — Status: Resolved
Security-incident detail — Loss or exposure: Approximately 3.022 billion erroneously minted aUSD was identified; most was burned through governance actions. (approximate)
Security-incident detail — Resolution date: 2022-09-26

Provenance

Source identity, publisher, publication date, reliability, archive, and relation count remain separate.

1 source identity · 1 evidence relation
Source	Publisher	Source category	Provenance	Primary or secondary	Supported claims	Archive	Reliability
Acala Incident Report 14/08/2022 Published 2022-09-20	Acala	Official statement or announcement Canonical: Official Incident Report	Subject-controlled source	Primary source	Error Mint, Governance Burn, Recovery, Security Incident and Recovery	Archive index or wildcard	High

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