Erroneous aUSD mint disrupts Acala — Stablecoin Event

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Source	Publisher and date	Relevance	Archive
Acala Incident Report 14/08/2022 Source details Source category Official statement or announcement Provenance Subject-controlled source Primary or secondary Primary source Reliability High	Acala Published 2022-09-20	Error Mint, Governance Burn, Recovery, Security Incident and Recovery	Archive index or wildcard

Official statement or announcement

High

Publisher: Acala
Published: 2022-09-20
Provenance: Subject-controlled source
Primary or secondary: Primary source
Supported claims: Error Mint, Governance Burn, Recovery, Security Incident and Recovery
Archive: Archive index or wildcard
Reliability: High

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Record ID: sog_ev_acalaausd_error_mint_batch_k
Severity: Critical
Event type: Erroneous Mint Incident
Public category: Security and chain incident
Lifecycle effect: Restricted or impaired
Recovery or reversal: Not applicable
Recovery date: Not yet recorded
Cause or mechanism: A configuration error led to erroneous aUSD minting and market disruption.
Structured detail kind: Security Incident
Record confidence: High
Evidence relations: 1

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

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