Verified blockchain security incidents with original evidence and historical event dates.
Historical events use their original event dates. Latest event dates first. Severity follows existing archive classifications.
Fake Masa on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
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.
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 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.
The price of Empower AI (EMPAI) on Ethereum has dropped by 100%. A whale 0xE4808...f3bA has dumped 1,000,000,000,000 EMPAI for about 66.44 WETH (valued at around $23,750).
Fake Monad on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Fake Oasis AI on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Fake Truflation on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Jupiter, a trading aggregator in the Solana ecosystem, tweeted that they noticed a large number of spam bots hitting our RPCs and limited them. Users are advised to try their operations again. The team is working super hard on helping users in this new congested environment and dealing with extraordinary volume.
The full-chain Web3 ecosystem xBlast, built inside Telegram, disclosed on Twitter that it had been hacked. The attacker transferred XBL tokens from its project's main wallet address and sold them for approximately 22 ETH. xBlast's proposed solution is to deploy a new XBL token and restore liquidity, promising fair compensation for all losses.
Squid Game (SQUID) is a meme token on the BNB chain. On April 8, 2024, the SQUID Game was exploited on the BNB chain due to a smart contract vulnerability, which resulted in a loss of assets worth approximately $87,000. The root cause of the exploit is a faulty logic design within their swap contract.
UPS on BNBChain was attacked and lost ~$30K.
Wall Street Memes (WSM)’s pre-sale contract was attacked, resulting in a loss of ～2.5M WSM, worth of ~$18,000.
CondomSOL on Solana has exited, and its Twitter account is no longer accessible. The wallet associated with CondomSOL raised 4,965 SOL, equivalent to approximately $922,000.
The Twitter account of Wormhole co-founder Robinson Burkey was hacked, and a suspicious link was posted.
In the Blast ecosystem, the project Avolend Finance is suspected to be a rug pull. Currently, its official website and Twitter account cannot be accessed.
The DeFi protocol OpenLeverage has been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $260,000. In light of this, OpenLeverage has decided to discontinue the OpenLeverage trading and lending protocol. OpenLeverage is initiating processes for users to close trades/borrowings and withdraw funds safely. All protocol actions will remain paused until withdrawal processes begin early next week.
FixedFloat, a decentralized exchange, tweeted that they have encountered another attack, with hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in their third-party services. The company assured that both company and user funds remain unaffected.
The founder of yield-trading protocol Pendle Finance tweeted that the team has confirmed being unable to access the official Pendle Twitter account and is currently investigating to resolve the issue. During this period, hackers used the Pendle official Twitter account to post phishing links. On the same day, the Pendle founder tweeted that the team had regained control of the official Pendle Twitter account.
The Solana ecosystem is grappling with a spate of drained wallets. A cause has yet to be definitively determined, but some of the thefts were linked to the use of trading bots like Solareum. According to security researcher Plum, the Solareum Telegram trading bot vulnerability resulted in a loss of assets worth approximately $1 million.