# Security Roundup: Slice Module on Base Loses $41,000 to Fake Payout Contracts as NEAR Intents Closes Its $3.8 Million Case

Most of this month's incidents came from contracts trusting inputs they never checked, including a whitelist breach that drained $6 million in wrapped staked ether from a Base vault.

- Published: 2026-10-24T05:47:39.510Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-10-24/security-roundup-slice-module-on-base-loses-41-000-to-fake-p
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [DeFiHackLabs (Slice PoC)](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/eb2325b68b83f3ce6a6e743352f82097be1c6875), [DeFiHackLabs (Slice review)](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/c9a505ffd69657ef77dcd8680c346ea96625b8d4), [The Crypto Times (Slice)](https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/21/slice-protocol-exploit-on-base-drains-41k-as-fundsmodule-trusts-fake-payout-contracts/), [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/), [Crypto Briefing](https://cryptobriefing.com/near-intents-recovers-exploit-funds/), [The Crypto Times (WAX)](https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/22/wax-multi-chain-bridge-exploited-for-roughly-75000/), [The Crypto Times (Base vault)](https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/04/base-vault-hack-6m-in-wstETH-drained-after-attacker-gains-whitelist-access/)

Slice (Base, about $41,000). A FundsModule contract linked to Slice, an on-chain commerce protocol on Base, lost about 8.72 ETH and 19,820 USDC on Oct. 20 and 21. The root cause was input validation. A permissionless function accepted a cal…

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