Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Bacon Protocol
Hack or exploit on Mar 5, 2022 · Reentrancy
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$1M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#940
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Bacon Protocol NFT mortgage lending platform was exploited via reentrancy in the lend() function. The contract used ERC777 without considering callback security, allowing an attacker to reenter lend() to obtain excessive lending credits and drain ~$1M.
Details
- Date
- Mar 5, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Reentrancy
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bacon Protocol hack, Mar 5, 2022: $1M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht097b455aca/ (data as of 2026-10-31).