Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
Wallet loses over $72 million to address poisoning
Hack or exploit on May 3, 2024
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$72.7M
dollars at the time
Returned
$65.5M
90% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#76
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- May 3, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Bitcoin, Ethereum
After the theft
- Recovered or frozen
- $65.5M
“$72.7M taken, $7.2M after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Wallet loses over $72 million to address poisoning hack, May 3, 2024: $72.7M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht04936d5e59/ (data as of 2026-11-01).