Hack history / 2019 / Hack or exploit

TronBank

Hack or exploit on Apr 11, 2019 · Infinite Mint

SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES

Lost

undisclosed

dollars at the time

Returned

none listed

as the sources state it

Rank

not ranked

collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked

What happened

TronBank's invest() function did not validate that msg.tokenId was the legitimate BTT token, allowing attackers to use counterfeit tokens and artificially inflate their BTT balance. Nearly 200M counterfeit BTTs were minted.

Details

Date: Apr 11, 2019
Kind: Hack or exploit
Method: Infinite Mint
How in: Smart contract bug
Target: DeFi protocol
Chains: Tron

Reported by

DefiLlama ↗
SlowMist Hacked ↗

Related incidents

TronBank 2019 · Hack or exploit · $4.3M
TronCrush 2019 · Hack or exploit · undisclosed

Cite this page

SwanBluechip, "TronBank hack, Apr 11, 2019: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht1f12f8f70f/ (data as of 2026-10-31).

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