Verified blockchain security incidents with original evidence and historical event dates.
Description of the event: The cross-chain bridge project XBridge was exploited due to a smart contract vulnerability on the Ethereum Mainnet and the BNB chain, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.44 million.
Description of the event: The decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol Magpie Protocol was attacked due to a contract vulnerability, resulting in $129,000 being stolen from 221 wallets. The root cause is due to unchecked call data. The attacker called the contract's swap() function and passed in data which included a list of users to transfer tokens from.
Description of the event: Users reported abnormal activity on the trading platform of the DeFi asset management protocol Velvet Capital on April 23rd. When attempting to connect to the frontend, users were prompted to approve their wallet's access permissions for the protocol.
Description of the event: The Fake Safe Token (SAFE) on BNBChain is suspected of a rug pull, and the current token price has dropped by 100%.
Description of the event: Z123 on BSC was attacked by a hacker due to a contract vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately $136k. The .update() function of Z123 was repeatedly called which burned extra tokens and inflated the price.
Description of the event: The Fake Cruiz (CRUIZ) on BNBChain is suspected of a rug pull, and the current token price has dropped by 100%.
Description of the event: The decentralized betting platform ZKasino is suspected to have exited. Recently, users on Twitter reported that ZKasino removed the message "Ethereum will be returned and can be bridged back" from the Bridge Funds interface, causing users to be unable to withdraw. Subsequently, the project team transferred the ETH assets deposited by users to the 0x791 multi-signature address, and then deposited them into the staking protocol Lido for yield farming.
Description of the event: Hedgey Finance suffered two exploits, one on the Ethereum and another on the Arbitrum network. The ETH attack resulted in a loss of $1.9 million, while the Arbitrum exploit led to a theft of $42.8 million in ARB tokens.
Description of the event: The Twitter account of the cross-chain bridge Meson Finance posted a tweet containing a phishing link. Meson Finance tweeted that the relevant content has been deleted and confirmed that the issue originated from a third-party API rather than a direct attack on the account.
Description of the event: Fake PRCL on the BNB Chain appears to have exit scammed, resulting in a 100% price drop and causing losses exceeding $100,000.
Description of the event: Token issuance protocol Mars was attacked and lost about 1M MARS 和 137 个 WBNB.
Description of the event: Grand Base, a real world assets platform built on the Base layer-2 blockchain, the team behind the project claimed that the deployer wallet had been compromised, allowing an attacker to drain the project's liquidity pool. Altogether, 615 ETH (~$2 million) was taken from the project. On April 20th, Grand Base tweeted that during the token reboot process, the team had managed to retrieve our veNFTs from the hacked address and transferred them to a multi-sig wallet. The veNFT position represents and amount of $225,000 and will be used to build robust liquidity when the time comes.
Description of the event: Fake JILLBODEN on BNBChain is suspected of a rug pull, and the current token price has dropped by 100%.
Description of the event: Fake VDZ on BNBChain is suspected of a rug pull, and the current token price has dropped by 100%.
Description of the event: According to on-chain analyst ZachXBT's monitoring, the group of scammers who stole 8 figs with Magnate, Kokomo, Lendora, Solfire, etc is back with a new project on Blast @Leaperfinance. Last week they funded an address on Blast with ~$1M of laundered funds from the previous rugs and have begun adding liquidity to bait people in. Over time, the fraudulent team increased their TVL to over a million dollars, then stole all user funds deposited into the protocol, and forged KYC documents using low-level auditing companies. Currently, this fraudulent group has initiated scams on platforms such as Base, Solana, Scroll, Optimism, Arbitrum, Ethereum, and Avalanche.
Description of the event: The GFA token was exploited on the BNB chain, which resulted in a loss of assets worth approximately $15,000. The root cause of the exploit is a lack of access control. The vulnerable contracts had functions for calculating rewards, for which anyone could invoke a call to them. The hacker was able to manually calculate and generate the rewards and drain the tokens. The exploiter has already laundered the stolen assets into Tornado Cash.
Description of the event: The Bitcoin-native lending protocol, Zest Protocol twitted that it experienced an attack. The attacker lent out an amount exceeding the value of their collateral by artificially inflating its value. The attack has been mitigated, and all unauthorized access has been disabled. The attacker removed 324,000 STX from the protocol, and this loss will be compensated from the Zest Protocol's treasury, ensuring full reimbursement of user assets.
Description of the event: Fake Masa on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Description of the event: Sumer Money was exploited on the Base chain due to a smart contract vulnerability, which resulted in a loss of assets worth approximately $310,000. The root cause of the exploit is a lack of reentrancy protection, which led to the manipulation of the underlying assets.
Description of the event: Sumer Money was exploited on the Base chain due to a smart contract vulnerability, which resulted in a loss of assets worth approximately $310,000.