Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
Fantom Foundation
Hack or exploit on Oct 17, 2023 · Private Key Leakage
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$657K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,060
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On October 17, Fantom Foundation Telegram Community Administrator Jane stated that some of Fantom Foundation's hot wallet assets were drained due to a zero-day vulnerability on Google Chrome. According to SlowMist's analysis of on-chain transmission methods and previous emergency response experience, this should be a case of private key theft, which may be the result of the Foundation or its employees being attacked by phishing, social engineering, and running malicious Trojan files, leading to the theft of some wallet private keys.
Details
- Date
- Oct 17, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Private Key Leakage
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Fantom Foundation hack, Oct 17, 2023: $657K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht0029360099/ (data as of 2026-11-01).