Hack history / 2022 / Hack or exploit
FriesDAO
Hack or exploit on Oct 28, 2022 · Weak Key Generation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$2.3M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#654
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On October 28, 2022, FriesDAO's deployer wallet generated using the Profanity vanity-address tool was compromised, allowing an attacker to calculate the private key and steal approximately $2.3M in FRIES governance tokens and other assets from the staking pool. Profanity had a known critical flaw enabling private key derivation for vanity addresses.
Details
- Date
- Oct 28, 2022
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Weak Key Generation
- How in
- Keys, accounts and infrastructure
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "FriesDAO hack, Oct 28, 2022: $2.3M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht2318c0665c/ (data as of 2026-10-31).