Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
Portal
Hack or exploit on Feb 2, 2022 · Signature Verification Flaw
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$326M
dollars at the time
Returned
$140M
43% of the loss, as a source states it
Rank
#13
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On February 2, 2022, attackers exploited Wormhole Portal by using a deprecated insecure signature verification function to mint 120,000 wrapped ETH on Solana without locking equivalent collateral on Ethereum, then redeemed for real ETH.
Details
- Date
- Feb 2, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Signature Verification Flaw
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Solana
- Audit (rekt.news)
- Neodyme
After the theft
- Recovered or frozen
- $140M
“$320.0M taken, $180.0M after recovery or freezing” (Web3 Is Going Great)
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Portal hack, Feb 2, 2022: $326M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht1991f187bd/ (data as of 2026-11-01).