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.
Lava suffered a flash loan attack, resulting in approximately $340,000 in losses. All lending markets are reportedly paused as the investigation is ongoing.
Decentralized lending protocol Prisma Finance was hacked, with a loss of approximately 3,257.7 ETH (equivalent to around $11.6 million USD). The protocol has currently been suspended for investigation. Officials remind vault owners to disable authorization for related LST and LRT contract delegations.
The email newsletter account of Web3 media company Decrypt has been compromised, and a phishing scam email has been sent to all of our subscribers. Please do not click on any links. Currently, the attacker has profited $3,000 through phishing.
The Blast ecosystem project Munchables was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $62.5 million. On the same day, Blast founder Pacman tweeted: "$97m has been secured in a multisig by Blast core contributors. Took an incredible lift in the background but I’m grateful the ex munchables dev opted to return all funds in the end without any ransom required.."
The project ZongZiFa on BSC was exploited through a flash loan, resulting in a loss of approximately $229,000. The attacker manipulated the price of ZongZi to gain invitation rewards.
The RWA infrastructure of the Curio Ecosystem suffered an attack, involving smart contracts based on MakerDAO within its ecosystem. The attacker exploited a permission access logic vulnerability.
The astrology-based project Lucky Star Currency rug-pulled in October 2023, resulting in a loss of $1.1 million. On March 22, 2024, ownership of the project was transferred to a malicious smart contract, which then drained tokens valued at almost $300,000 from those who still held them.
The new blockchain game Super Sushi Samurai, based on the Blast layer-2, was attacked due to a vulnerability in its token contract, resulting in a loss of approximately $4.6 million. Shortly after the theft, the attacker contacted the project, claiming to be a whitehat. Later, Super Sushi Samurai confirmed that the funds had been returned, minus a 5% bounty.
The hackers gained access to AirDAO LP through a social engineering scam and drained the liquidity pool of AMB/ETH. The scam involved an email with a malicious attachment, impersonating one of their known partners. In total, the hackers stole 41,612,782.10627101 AMB and 126.5 ETH.
TICKER project developer steals $900,000. A developer brought on to run a presale for the TICKER token stole $900,000 from the project. 15% of the token supply was sent to the developer to distribute via an airdrop, but instead of doing so, the developer sold the majority of the tokens for around $900,000.
On March 20th, Dolomite, a decentralized trading protocol in the Arbitrum ecosystem, was attacked due to a vulnerability in its old contracts on the Ethereum mainnet. Approximately 187 victims suffered asset losses totaling $1.8 million, including 1,245,271 USDC, 94,423 DAI, and 165.9 WETH. As of March 24th, Dolomite has recovered 90% of the assets taken by the attacker.
The @GoDaddy account for the L2 cross-chain bridge LayerSwap's domain http://layerswap[.]io was compromised. The compromise of the domain led to a phishing site being displayed, resulting in approximately 50 users losing ~$100K worth assets. To address this, Layerswap is refunding the affected users in full plus and an additional 10% as a compensation for the caused inconvenience.
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator ParaSwap announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability affecting its approved aggregation smart contract Augustus V6. This vulnerability impacts users who have authorized the Augustus V6 contract. In response, ParaSwap has temporarily halted the V6 API and employed white-hat attack methods to ensure the safety of user funds. These funds have been securely transferred to a secure wallet starting with 0x66E90 and are slated to be returned to users promptly. Additionally, ParaSwap urges users to revoke authorization for the Augustus V6 contract to mitigate potential risks. Currently, it is known that 4 addresses have been affected by this vulnerability, resulting in a total loss of approximately $24,000. ParaSwap is taking measures to address and fix this vulnerability while ensuring the safety of user funds.
On the X platform, on-chain investigator ZachXBT reported that the X account of hardware wallet provider Trezor was hacked.
According to on-chain investigator ZachXBT, the X account of TON Blockchain has been compromised.
According to blockchain investigator ZachXBT, an account impersonating Solana ecosystem KOL Ansem (@blknoiz06) capitalized on the recent meme coin craze to profit over $2.6 million through phishing.
The treasury of Remilia, the parent company of Milady, has been drained, with assets from multiple official Remilia wallets being transferred and sold. The hot wallet and multi-signature treasury of Remilia's parent company, Remilia, were hacked, with assets from multiple official Remilia wallets being transferred and sold. Charlotte Fang, the founder of Milady, claimed he was hacked and drained of ETH and NFTs potentially worth several million dollars. Although the project's treasury used a multi-signature model, the private keys were stored in one password manager, which Fang says was compromised. The attacker stole around 490 ETH (~$1.8 million) and $58,000 USDC, along with more than 130 Milady NFTs, 320 Remilio NFTs, and hundreds of derivative tokens issued on the NFTX platform. Based on floor prices, the assets are valued at north of $6 million.
The deployer wallet of the NFT marketplace Wilder World was attacked, and ownership was transferred to the attacker. Following a malicious upgrade, the attacker withdrew WILD and MEOW tokens and converted them into approximately $1.8 million.
The DeFi protocol MOBOX was attacked due to a vulnerability in the borrow function, resulting in a loss of approximately $750,000.
The DeFi project Mozaic was exploited, who stole approximately $2 million from the project. According to Mozaic, this individual was a Mozaic developer who had illegally obtained the private keys of a security module by compromising the data of a core team member. They also stated that about 90% of the stolen funds have now been frozen on MEXC.