Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
Balancer
Hack or exploit on Jun 30, 2020 · Flash loan attack
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$2K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#2,386
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
According to DeBank Twitter, hackers once again used dYdX's lightning loan to attack the COMP trading pair in Balancer's part of the liquidity pool, and took away the unreceived COMP rewards from the pool to make a profit of 10.8 ETH, which is about $2408.
Details
- Date
- Jun 30, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Flash loan attack
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Balancer hack, Jun 30, 2020: $2K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht231a023b45/ (data as of 2026-10-31).